Gestão pública municipal e a sustentabilidade em cidades do interior do Maranhão

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a constant transformation of the environment, changes that can affect the balance of life. Starting from this point, the need to develop research was sought to observe the participation of public authorities in relation to the preservation and development of sustainability. Responding to the research problem, What is the level of incorporation of sustainability into public management practices? Seeking to: identify the levels of administrative knowledge of public managers, analyze the vision of municipal public managers in relation to the society they represent and verify the perspective of public managers in relation to environmental sustainability. Using a quantitative and qualitative approach, through field research, thus collecting the inherent data by applying an online questionnaire through Google Forms to municipal public managers in the cities of Codó and Timbiras Maranhão. Considering that, despite the effective participation of public authorities in relation to the development of sustainability, some challenges arise, municipal public management has been studying and developing measures to resolve these problems and is increasingly becoming a participatory management with regard to sustainability.