Adaptación al Cambio Climático e Integración de la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres en la Educación de Negocios: un estudio de caso en la Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasil - Núm. 28, Enero 2016 - Revista AD-minister - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 656162225

Adaptación al Cambio Climático e Integración de la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres en la Educación de Negocios: un estudio de caso en la Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasil

AutorMariana Xavier Nicolletti/Thais Camolesi Guimarães/Annelise Vendramini Felsberg/Ligia Ramos/Fernanda Casagrande Rocha/Mario Monzoni Neto
CargoCenter for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil/Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil/Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo,...
Páginas91-126
91
AD-MINISTER
Adaptation to Climate Change and Integration of Disaster Risk
Management in Business Education: A Case Study in Fundação
Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Adaptación al Cambio Climático e Integración de la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres en la Educación
de Negocios: un estudio de caso en la Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasil
MARIANA
XAVIER NICOLLETTI
THAIS
CAMOLESI GUIMARÃES
ANNELISE
VENDRAMINI FELSBERG
LIGIA
RAMOS
FERNANDA
CASAGRANDE ROCHA
MARIO
MONZONI NETO
JEL: M, I, Q
Received: 22/06/2016
Modified: 24/06/2016
Accepted: 29/06/2016
DOI: 10.17230/ad-minister.28.5
www.eafit.edu.co/ad-minister
Creative Commons (CC BY-NC- SA) 1 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: mariana.nicolletti@fgv.br
2 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: thais.camolesi@fgv.br
3 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: annelise.vendramini@fgv.br
4 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: Ligia.Ramos@fgv.br
5 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: fernanda.rocha@fgv.br
6 Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação
Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil. Email: Mario.Monzoni@fgv.br
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to discuss improvements for the Master in Sustainability Management of
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), in order to incorporate the topic of disaster risk management (DRM).
Considering the risks and opportunities that climate change – and more specifically extreme weather
events that can lead to disasters – represent to business, it is essential that business schools help
prepare managers to deal with this critical sustainability issue. Therefore, it is extremely important to
include this topic in management education. Aiming to support companies to assess and address busi-
ness risks and opportunities derived from climate change, the Business for Climate Platform (EPC) of
the Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) of FGV has developed a framework and a tool for business
adaptation strategies for climate change and implemented them with seven large companies in Brazil.
Thus, based on EPC’s experience, the paper brings a proposal for the inclusion of DRM in the MSM’s
syllabi, through the lens of climate change adaptation.
KEYWORDS
Climate change; adaptation; business education; disaster risk reduction.
RESUMEN
El objetivo de este trabajo es discutir mejoras para la Maestría de Gestión de la Sostenibilidad (MGS) de
la Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), con el fin de incorporar el tema gestión del riesgo de desastres (GRD).
Teniendo en cuenta los riesgos y las oportunidades que el cambio climático -y más específicamente
los eventos extremos capaces de generar desastres- representan a las empresas, es esencial que las
escuelas de negocios ayuden a preparar a los gerentes para hacer frente a este problema crítico de la
sostenibilidad. Por lo tanto, es sumamente importante incluir este tema en la educación de gestión. Para
apoyar las empresas en la identificación y actuación frente a los riesgos y oportunidades de negocio, la
AD-minister Nº. 28 enero-junio 2016 pp. 91 - 126 · ISSN 1692-0279 · eISSN 2256-4322
Mariana Xavier Nicolletti · Thais Camolesi Guimarães · Annelise Vendramini Felsberg · Ligia Ramos
Fernanda Casagrande Rocha · Mario Monzoni Neto
Adaptation to Climate Change and Integration of Disaster Risk Management in Business Education:
A Case Study in Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
92
AD-MINISTER
Plataforma Empresas por el Clima (EPC) del Centro de Estudios de Sostenibilidad (GVces) de FGV ha desarrollado
un marco y una herramienta para construir estrategias de negocio para la adaptación al cambio climático y los
implementó en siete grandes empresas en Brasil. Así, con base en la experiencia del EPC, este artículo aporta
una propuesta para la inserción de GRD en los planes de estudios del MGS, a través de la lente de la adaptación
al cambio climático.
PALABRAS CLAVE
Cambio climático; adaptación; educación de negocios; reducción del riesgo de desastres.
INTRODUCTION
According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), released in full on January 30, 2014, there is no doubt about the
occurrence of global warming, and that human influence has been its dominant
cause since 1950 (IPCC, 2013). One of the main problems related to climate change
is that it leads to an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather
events, which in turn can lead to disasters.
Disasters can seriously undermine business competitiveness and longer-term
economic sustainability. Companies are aected by disaster-related direct losses to
their assets and indirect losses in their supply chain, which can often be composed of
small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs “are more likely to lack risk awareness
or struggle to find the capacity to manage disaster risks, mainly owing to financial,
human resource and technical limitations” (UNISDR, 2013, p. 184), and few of them
have been able to strengthen their capacities to manage disaster risks.
Seeking to increase resilience, large companies are trying to better understand
what impacts of climate change are material, and what risks and opportunities are
represented for each sphere of the business. In this context, there is an opportunity
to include SMEs (the key suppliers in the risk assessment), and to develop a more
robust adaptation plan as part of a business strategy. Therefore, knowledge and tools
are needed to assist in the process. It is in this context that the work of The Center
for Sustainability Studies (GVces) at the Business Administration School of Getulio
Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP) takes place.
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), founded in 1944 in Brazil, is a nonprofit organi-
zation that oers several services to the technical-scientific-business community and
the society as a whole. The business school at FGV has three important accredita-
tions: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Europe-
an Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Association of MBAs
(AMBA). In 2015, FGV was in 13th place among the global top think tanks and has
been considered the best think tank in Latin America, according to the Global Go To
Think Tanks Rankings 2015 (McGann, 2016).
The Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) at FGV, in turn, was established
in 2003 as a reference in the study of sustainability-related topics within the corpo-
rate and public contexts. The objective of GVces is to provide answers to economic
agents to identify, measure and assess risks and opportunities concerning the envi-
ronment, social responsibility and corporate governance. Four lines of action guide
AD-minister Nº. 28 enero-junio 2016 pp. 91 - 126 · ISSN 1692-0279 · eISSN 2256-4322
93
AD-MINISTER
its programs, which are capacity building, research and knowledge, articulation, and
communication and outreach.
Climate change – mitigation and adaptation – is one of the most important re-
search topics at GVces, which seeks to meet the growing interest of private and pub-
lic sectors regarding the risks that climate change poses and potential opportunities
still unexplored. GVces has initiatives related to climate change (Appendix 2), and
among them, specifically working with the business sector, there is the EPC (Portu-
guese acronym for Business for Climate Platform)
Launched in 2009, in partnership with The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders
Network (CLN) for Climate Action, and supported by its 27 Founding Companies,
EPC today is a platform of 35 Member Companies working towards one goal: to
mobilize, raise awareness and connect business leaderships for GHG emission man-
agement and reduction practices, climate risks management, and to propose public
policies and positive incentives related to climate change in Brazil. The EPC plat-
form engages companies not only with discussions and actions related to reduction
and management of GHG corporate emissions, but also with the sector’s positioning
with regards to climate-related issues, and in building proposals for public policies
that can contribute towards a low-carbon economy in Brazil. Recently, GVces, along
with the British Institution UKCIP, under the Platform, launched a tool to help com-
panies better understand their vulnerabilities and risks to climate change, and also
build an adaptation strategy and plan.
Besides the EPC, GVces leads several other projects on climate change in partner-
ship with public and private sectors, producing applied research and supporting and
influencing the decision-making processes. At the same time, GVces has a broad range
of teaching experience on sustainability and climate change and their connections
with business and economics. GVces is the academic coordinator of two fully-opera-
tional courses (an undergraduate and a master’s degree) and two courses that will be
launched in August 2016 at FGV (Appendix 1). All courses are grounded in applied
research conducted by GVces. These courses are part of a series of initiatives that re-
sponds to FGV´s commitment to PRME – the United Nations Principles for Respon-
sible Management Education. The PRME were developed in 2007 by an international
taskforce to promote a global engagement platform for academic institutions, setting
six principles that lay the foundation for a global platform for responsible management
education. In 2009, FGV became one of its more than 500 worldwide signatories.
Concerning the master program that is operational, GVces has been academi-
cally managing the Master in Sustainability Management (MSM) for more than ten
years. The objective of this program is to engage participants in the sustainability
potential as a key strategic factor for achieving and maintaining competitive ad-
vantage in an increasingly globalized environment, as well as providing tools for
participants to evaluate results, identify risks and opportunities. Furthermore, GVces
is academically involved in the development of two other Master’s degrees at FGV,
one at the School of Economics, and the other at the Business Administration School.
The first one, the Professional Master’s degree in Economics (MPE) with emphasis

Para continuar leyendo

Solicita tu prueba

VLEX utiliza cookies de inicio de sesión para aportarte una mejor experiencia de navegación. Si haces click en 'Aceptar' o continúas navegando por esta web consideramos que aceptas nuestra política de cookies. ACEPTAR