Economic Development and Environmental Awareness

Companies began to cooperate to minimizeEthical principles are excellent ways for a human
negative effects of pollution and requireorganization more sustainable, since it was global
environmental responsibility. Agreements andand locally charged and there was strong support
international cooperative action have been able tofor a global paradigm shift, there is also a political
police and prosecute offenders of reasonablewill and action, based on public opinion well
standards of emissions.informed.
It is possible to merge economic interests withIt is understood that the process of globalization,
environmental interests, but the economic thinkingthe concept of citizenship has become a universal
dominates and guides the majority ofvalue and ecological ethics a matter of love, care,
governments is that everything must submit to itand involved in this vision of consolidating the
and that the ecology is external to the economy.engine are ethical individuals.
Humans are only part of the nature of business,The more consumers are conscious and firms in
so the economy should be seen as part oftheir requirements for production and commercial
ecology.companies, there will be fewer spaces for
Environmental issues should be considered one ofunethical positions in the corporate world.
the most important challenges that face theBusinesses have the role to contribute to the
business world in this first decade of thesocial consensus, through a sustainable business
millennium. Companies should take forward thispractice, which means change of values and
issue of fundamental importance, acting promptlyorientation in their system, seeing the
and a proactive stance instead of abandoning apreservation of the environment.
reactive posture.With an agreed legislation and weak enforcement
In environmental awareness is necessary tostill did have effects through a more significant
educate and implant the the concept ofprogress to reduce pollution from the industry,
environment as a partner and not as a limit towhile its liquid and solid wastes that pollute the
economic activities.water are added to the sewer urban and
Companies that do not understand this newagricultural activities, the sectors have not yet
relationship of forces which destiny is toexpressed significantly since the initiative that the
disappear, because the more the citizen behavegovernment crawl irrelevant in campaigns before
as a consumer of ideas and political attitudes,the urgency that is happening.
higher pressure occurs on the crucial issue. ThisThe concern of companies with environmental
awareness was the perception that it isissues, although limited and inadequate, is of
necessary to increase the profit, but now withfundamental importance, however, is far from
the vision of welfare, without harming theideal as far as the question does not arise as
environment, educating the consumer in someisolated, but necessarily connected with social and
way to improve the environmental situation.cultural issues.
For radical protectionist, especially in developingCertification represents an environmental concern
countries, the key to growth was to accelerateespecially for the sectors that deal with matching
the increase of rents by adopting appropriateup the measures provided for in existing legislation.
environmental policies.However, for many enterprises the environmental
It appears the search for quality and morecertification is as a mechanism for marketing,
focused now on the side of environmental liabilityadapting to new times and pressure from
company, the Environmental Quality. Theenvironmental activists. While this side of the
environmental quality is the care requirements ofcertificates other forms of pollution of the
physical, chemical, biological, social, economic andenvironment remains intact.
technological developments to ensure theThe democratization of social action when it
environmental stability of relationships in thecomes to performance of the economy is
ecosystem in which the activities are part of thecontradictory. On one side the closer the citizen is
organization.the sphere of decision making, greater
The total quality is the tool capable of taking careopportunities for social control, on the other hand,
of the production process by reducing the rawwe are following a process of growth of business
material used to produce by a smaller amount ofmonopolies and corporations that pull local
waste.decisions.
To evaluate the industry's ability to respond toThis is a paradox of democracy, environmental
the waste problem and effectively contribute tocontrol, preservation of biodiversity, environmental
improving the environment and environmentaleducation for businesses. The rationality of the
quality, all the measures and procedures aresystem of short and long term means in the area
clearly defined and properly implemented toand destruction of natural resources, revealing the
reduce and control the impacts brought by abias of un - sustainability, since all of nature is to
business on the environment. The action shouldbe understood as natural assets for purposes of
cover the Environmental to the effective removalprivate appropriation.
of generated waste.The insanity that affronts our natural wealth is
Environmental Quality is the requirements of aunthinkable, the economic vision of nature, the
physical, chemical, biological, social, economic andconcentration of income and the domain of
technological development to ensure thescientific knowledge. For that we need more
environmental stability of relationships in theawareness that it is necessary to break with the
ecosystem in which the activities are part of thelack of human sensitivity, lead to understanding
organization.and finding that human dignity is in all living
The search for an environmental success of theconditions in society and the reason to turn over
eco-efficiency, leads us back to a condition knowneverything in consumables for obtaining profit .
to sustainability: the awareness.