OVERVIEW OF PUBLICATIONS ON SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC PURCHASING IN BRAZIL BEFORE AND AFTER RIO+20

Abstract

Searching for alternatives to reduce the environmental impacts arising from productive activities are concerns in modern society. As an important part of this process, the governments of some countries have sought to mitigate these impacts, using their purchasing power as a strategy, with the purchase of products and services that cause the least possible environmental damage. The purpose of this article is to analyze the progress of research on Sustainable Public Procurement (CPS), before and after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), held in 2012, in Brazil. As for the methodological procedures, in relation to the approach to the problem, it is qualitative. As for the objectives, it is a descriptive research. The procedures used for data collection and analysis were bibliometrics and content analysis techniques. Initially, a floating reading was carried out to explore the articles and later they were analyzed according to characteristics proposed by Bardin (2010): Completeness: where all the elements that corresponded to the included criteria were considered; Representativeness: the analysis was carried out with a representative sample; Homogeneity: the criteria for the choices were made with identical techniques and; Relevance: made sure that the data were adequate in relation to the sources of information. The research findings showed that the field is in development, although under the academic point of view it has not yet reached maturity, as important aspects related to sustainable public procurement have still been neglected, given the importance that this theme represents in the current global context.