Environmental governance in gold mining

Abstract

In mind the official mechanisms establishing standards for the use of natural resources and waste management, environmental issues have been gaining prominence in productive organizations. Atypical natural phenomena are predominantly due to the uncontrolled use of natural resources in favor of economic growth. Through the challenges involved in environmental issues, the theme of environmental governance has been growing and gaining space becoming the subject of academic and scientific studies. Environmental governance can be understood as an innovative strategy that has as its principle the action, intervention and control of all factors that imply transformations in the environment, aiming at the exercise of sustainability and economic development. This paper analyzes how environmental governance is based on a large company, and its main objective is to investigate and to analyze the situation related to the environmental management carried out by the company as a contribution to studies on environmental governance. In the methodological aspect, the research was characterized as research applied by its approach form, as qualitative research for its objectives and as exploratory research for its technical procedures, of which the collection of information was highlighted through a semi-structured questionnaire that was applied to 11% of the company's total employees. The main result was a great fragility in the field of the factors that constitute the concept and mechanisms of management of the of some managers, a fact that has a negative impact on the group of workers addressed in the research.