Avaliação da aplicação do triple botton line - estudo de caso: comunidade do caldeirão de Santa Cruz/CE / Evaluation of the application of the triple bottom line. case study: caldeirão de Santa Cruz community (CEARÁ)

The Triple Bottom Line, composed by the Environmental, Social and Economic dimensions, has been widely accepted since its implementation will involve the maintenance or development of factors that lead to sustainability. When defining this concept, Elkington (2012) quoted the director of the Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan, Stuart Hart, who said that large corporations would be the only organizations that could achieve sustainability. The aim of this work is to verify if sustainability, at a given site, can be achieved without the aid of large organizations. Specifically, the objective is to check the status of the Caldeirao de Santa Cruz Community, located in the state of Ceara / Brazil, in the period between 1926 and 1937. For this evaluation, it was used the Triple Bottom Line model proposed by Elkington (2012). The results indicated that the concept known as Triple Bottom Line was implied in the Caldeirao de Santa Cruz community’s way of living and that was achieved through the work carried out in the community, without the help of any organization. The results also showed that the behavior and the way of living and working of the community bothered some sectors of society. Keywords : Sustainability; Triple Bottom Line; Caldeirao de Santa Cruz; Ceara.