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In spite of the efforts of the footwear and textile industries to understand their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and develop reduction strategies, knowledge on the subject is still incipient. Given this scenario, this paper aims to identify, quantify, and present the main sources of GHG in this economic sector, followed by proposing solutions aimed at more efficient management. A qualitative and quantitative study was conducted with four companies in southern Brazil to achieve this purpose. Among the main sources of emissions are fuel and energy consumption. The main reduction alternatives include searching for alternative fuels and considering energy generation through clean sources. It is clear that implementing initiatives aimed at reducing emissions is not a simple task. However, the research highlighted the technical feasibility of new forms of production with a reduced environmental impact.

Environmental engineering is a broad field that considers the complex interactions between natural issues and human action to make long-term arrangements and provide solutions. Natural designing uses many principles from the field of chemistry science, material technology, and other research to analyse and carry out strategies for resource conservation, protecting the environment, and the minimization of contaminated particles and polluting substances. The focus of the paper is on the sustainable and waste management practices that can reduce the undesirable effects such as carbon prints on the environment. the framework has been designed to attract more and more industries and management to achieve the sustainable growth of the sector. The key objectives of remediation activities are to safeguard public health, repair harmed ecosystems, and encourage the long-term, sustainable use of contaminated land or that area. Environmental engineering will continue to be essential in helping to shape a more sustainable relationship between humans and the natural world as society faces constantly shifting ecological issues and all the challenges related to the environment.

O artigo discute a necessidade da realização de um corte epistemológico que estabeleça o campo próprio de uma história ambiental, incluindo um repertório de métodos para a abordagem de diferentes processos, como as racionalidades econômicas, ecológicas e culturais do uso da natureza, assim como o regate de saberes e práticas tradicionais das diferentes culturas com seu entorno ecológico. São abordadas três vertentes para o estudo da história ambiental: a história epistemol ógica da complexidade ambiental, a hermenêutica das narrativas sobre as relações sociedade-natureza, a construção de identidades e as transformações sociais induzidas pelo movimento ambientalista.This article discusses the need to make an epistemological separation that establishes the very field of an environmental history, including a collection of methods for the approach to different processes, such as economic, ecological, and cultural rationalities of the usage of nature, as well as the rescue of traditional knowledge and practices from different cultures about their ecological surroundings. Three issues are discussed in the study of environmental history: the epistemological history of environmental complexity, the hermeneutics of narratives on society- nature relationship, the construction of identities, and the social transformations induced by the environmental movement.