Gestores Ambientais de Organizações Públicas: Uma Análise das Competências Sob a Ótica Acadêmica

This article aims to identify the fundamental individual and management skills for public environmental manager position, according to the researchers´ and undergraduate and graduate professors´ point of view. With a qualitative approach and from the opinion of thirteen researchers experts in the environmental field, it was found that the  public officials´skills in relation to environmental management do not differ from private managers´skills. The researchers are emphatic when they say that public organizations should have a department which is responsible for the environment and therefore an environmental manager. However, this is an embryonic situation because the environmental issue is usually not seen strategically by organizations of the first sector