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Governance in the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals in higher education: global trends
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
- Universidade Federal de Vicosa
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
- University of Malta
- Winona State University (MN)
Governance is a key component for implementing sustainable development (SD) initiatives in university teaching, research, and projects. This line of thinking also applies to implementing the United Nations (UN) sustainable …
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Students’ attitudes towards campus sustainability: a comparison among three universities in Sweden
- Diponegoro University
- Jönköping University
The role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in promoting and supporting sustainability has outstretched over the past decades as a result of various declarations and commitments related to the need …
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Transforming education for the just transition
- King's College London
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
- University of Dundee
Society faces many challenges in promoting a just transition to a low-carbon economy, a transition that does not create or exacerbate injustices. Notably, the just transition can only be attained …
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Developing curricula that equip designers with capabilities to enact sustainable futures: A matter of ethos
- Queensland University of Technology
This project addresses the lack of research regarding emerging roles for designers in the 21st century and their associated capabilities, along with the lack of studies looking into how a …
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Advancing sustainability leadership by shifting relational ‘agreement structures’: a transformational higher education change program
- Harvard University (MA)
- Institute for Strategic Clarity
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires leaders to navigate different fields and work across public, private, and plural sectors. Higher education (HE) is positioned uniquely to bring disciplines together …
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From food access to food sovereignty: Striving to meet university student needs
- Western Washington University (WA)
The ongoing neoliberalization of higher education has meant that college and university students at state institutions face declining state support for their education, increasing debt, precarious post-graduation job opportunities, and …
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Combining best practices framework with benchmarking to advance principles for responsible management education (PRME) performance
- University of Calgary (AB)
Higher education institutions play a critical role in shaping a more sustainable world. There is limited research on ‘how’ business schools can effectively take the UN PRME's Sharing Information Progress …
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An analysis of students’ attitudes and behaviors toward on-campus sustainable dining initiatives
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington (NC)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine students’ attitudes toward sustainable dining. It aims to identify the level of importance that students place on specific on-campus sustainable dining …
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Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review
- Simón Bolívar University
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Sustainability has increasingly become key in universities, as the objectives of sustainable development are essential to establish policies, guidelines and indicators that guide institutions to be more sustainable. This recognition …
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Inclusion and social justice in sustainable higher education: An integrated perspective through the lens of public engagement
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi del Sannio
- Università di Roma LUMSA
The objective of this paper is to investigate the commitment of universities in terms of inclusion and social justice in the light of the opportunities offered by university public engagement …
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Teaching critical hope with creative pedagogies of possibilities
- University of Sussex
How can we teach critical hope, amidst contemporary challenges that seem intractable, within neoliberal educational institutions that work to foreclose transformative pedagogies and through academic critique that can result in …
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The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation
- Johnson & Wales University, Providence (RI)
- University at Albany (NY)
As has become abundantly clear to the social scientists, agriculturalists, policymakers, and food justice advocates who have taken up the fight, progress toward more resilient, fair, and effective food systems …
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Students as co-researchers: Using participatory action research to address college food insecurity
- University of San Francisco (CA)
Studies indicate that college students experience high rates of food insecurity. Growing awareness of food insecurity on college campuses has resulted in efforts by many institutions to address the problem …
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Post-Pandemic Lessons for Destination Resilience and Sustainable Event Management: The Complex Learning Destination
- Texas A&M University (TX)
This paper aims to share post-pandemic lessons for destination resilience and the sustainability of events. It offers a new perspective that reimagines the space and place of events as learning …
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Teaching students to collaborate with communities: expanding engineering education to create a sustainable future
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Engineers are crucial to solving the world’s most pressing challenges, but they cannot do it alone. Creating new and more just systems that support people and planet requires that engineers …
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Bibliometric Analysis and Benchmarking of Life Cycle Assessment of Higher Education Institutions
- University of Coimbra
Higher Education Institutions (HEI), such as Universities and Institutes worldwide, are making efforts and setting goals to assess and minimise their environmental impacts, and to become more sustainable. Life Cycle …
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Waste governance and campus sustainability: formal and informal waste systems at football tailgates in Michigan
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of St Andrews
Purpose: Football tailgating is a focus of campus sustainability in the United States because it produces large amounts of waste. In states where recyclables can be redeemed for cash, this …
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Consumption in Office Buildings: A Case Study of an Australian University Campus
- University of Technology Sydney
- University of Twente
Building energy management, in terms of both adopted technologies and occupant consumption behaviour, is becoming an essential element of sustainability and climate change mitigation programs. The global COVID-19 pandemic and …
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Environmental behavior of university students
- ESIC University
- University of Malaga
Purpose: This study aims to build a model for the analysis of the environmental behavior of university students.
Design/methodology/approach: A partial least square method was adopted, and a questionnaire on …
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Footprints in Action: How UVA Is Managing Its Sustainability Stewardship
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
Evaluating sustainability stewardship at higher educational institutions is essential to working towards improving our environment. Many institutions have used environmental footprint indicators as a way to evaluate, track, and improve …
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Benchmarking Sustainable Mobility in Higher Education
- Università di Foggia
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
Sustainable mobility is an increasingly significant issue that both public and private organizations consider in order to reduce emissions by their members. In this paper, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …
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A New Curriculum for Sustainable Fashion at Textile Universities in Europe – Preliminary Results of the European Project Fashion Diet
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi
- Hochschule Reutlingen
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Trakia University
- University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
The strong demand for a transformation of the textile and fashion industry towards sustainability requires a continuous implementation of the guiding principle of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in education …
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Exploring Effective Pedagogies in Environmental and Sustainability Education for Teachers: A Story of New Zealand Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Experiences
- University of Auckland
Although teachers have been identified as key change agents in the shift towards a flourishing planet for all, research into effective pedagogies for embedding environmental and sustainability education (ESE) into …
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Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education Institutions: A systematic literature review
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are important actors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. As agents of …
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What do We Know About Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Education for Sustainable Development? A Systematic Literature Review
- University of Vechta
Teacher educators prepare prospective teachers to deliver Education for SustainableDevelopment (ESD) in schools. Lecturersí personal perceptions of ESD guide them inthis work. While there has been some research into lecturersí …
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Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: A Review of an Emerging Research Field
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- University of Vechta
Teacher Education for Sustainable Development (TESD) is a niche innovation in teacher education that empowers teachers to prepare learners to address global socio-environmental challenges. To advance the diffusion of this …
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Teaching the ecosystem service concept: experience from academia
- Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
- Technische Universität Dresden
- University of the Basque Country
Although ecosystem service (ES) is a well-established concept among the scientific community, it has not reached the mainstream of public awareness because it lacks wide recognition among citizens and educators. …
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Transdisciplinary learning exercise on post occupancy evaluation and retrofitting of built spaces
- College of Engineering Trivandrum
The need to develop sustainable strategies and solutions to design and retrofit buildings to be comfortable living environments that reduce energy and resource consumption is crucial in achieving the sustainable …
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Building legitimacy for sustainable business schools: Using the business model concept when teaching corporate sustainability
- University of Gothenburg
Dedication to sustainability means that business schools face challenges to their legitimacy. Teaching is the central activity through which business schools build legitimacy, and there are three legitimacy related aspects …
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Alignment among environmental programs in higher education: What Food-Energy-Water Nexus concepts are covered in introductory courses?
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- Rider University (NJ)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
- University of Northern Colorado (CO)
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- Whitman College (WA)
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of …
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Testing an instrument to assess the perception of climate change policies in universities: the case of Salamanca University
- Universidad de Salamanca
Purpose: This study aims to introduce a new instrument to assess the perception of the university community after the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) and its application at the Universidad de …
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Internationalisation and Climate Impacts of Higher Education: Towards an Analytical Framework
- University College London
Internationalisation of higher education has diverging implications for climate change, on the one hand entailing greenhouse gas emissions through mobility, but also contributing to climate action through international collaboration. These …
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Developing interdisciplinary consciousness for sustainability: using playful frame reflection to challenge disciplinary bias
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
A major challenge for interdisciplinary teamwork on complex sustainability issues is the often-conflicting disciplinary perspectives and underlying values and assumptions among collaborators. Interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and practitioners therefore requires …
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Assessing sustainability knowledge for undergraduate students in different academic programs and settings
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (WI)
Purpose: As sustainability teaching and learning rises in importance, an increasing number of higher education institutions (HEIs) are assessing the effectiveness of their approach to sustainability education. However, most assessments …
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Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom
- Auckland University of Technology
In this article, we reflect on our experiences of teaching sustainability in management education in an emergent context of increasing and pervasive eco-anxiety. Our collaborative autoethnographic enquiry stemmed from the …
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Connecting curricula and competence through student learning journeys
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This research examines the connection between higher education curricula for sustainable development and student development of key competencies for sustainability. The authors conducted a comparative case study that followed ten …
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Integrating sustainability themes for enhancing interdisciplinarity: a case study of a comprehensive research university in Japan
- Tohoku University
Interdisciplinary education and education for sustainable development provide a complementary approach to enhancing learners’ interdisciplinary and sustainability competencies. An interdisciplinary approach is considered a crucial method for enhancing university students’ …
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Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students
- Hanze University of Applied Sciences
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Given the prominence of sustainability in current global crises and the commitment of societies to the Sustainable Development Goals, this mixed methods study ascertains how Dutch higher education students (N …
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Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education
- Beijing Normal University
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe
In this short article, we pose six key questions that we argue as essential to critically problem-pose in achieving teaching for justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education (HE). We …
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Eco-critical language awareness for English language teaching (ELT): Promoting justice, wellbeing, and sustainability in the classroom
- University of Alabama (AL)
Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention to power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert …
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Higher education in turbulent times: navigating the transition from un-sustainability in a world dominated by technology
- Atlantic Technological University
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the implications for higher education of a rapidly changing global context, where technologies play a role in the propagation of …
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Reporting University Performance through the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda: Lessons Learned from Italian Case Study
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
The shift of sustainability paradigms within the academic context has prompted universities to develop additional accountability tools to respond to the resulting demand for information. However, in terms of social …
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Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Nottingham Trent University
- Open University of the Netherlands
- Universidade Federal da Paraíba
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
- University of Coimbra
Background: The implementation of sustainability at universities means that they can also play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy, and in assisting global efforts towards …
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Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
- King's College London
- La Trobe University
- University College London
- University of Tasmania
- University of Western Australia
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging …
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Leadership, support and organisation for academics’ participation in engineering education change for sustainable development
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
This work spotlights the experiences from ten years of implementing sustainable development in all educational programs at a technical university. With a focus on the critical issue of involving more …
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Science|Environment|Health, One Health, Planetary Health, Sustainability, and Education for Sustainable Development: How Do They Connect in Health Teaching?
- Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
In this paper, we explore Science|Environment|Health, One Health, Planetary Health, and Sustainability/Education for Sustainable Development in the context of the 2030 Agenda as four major frameworks that take a step …
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Campus sustainability plans: past, present and future
- Texas State University, San Marcos (TX)
Purpose: This study aims to describe the different elements included in campus sustainability plans (CSPs) in colleges and universities across the USA.
Design/methodology/approach: It examines the contents and specific areas …
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The Ecological Root Metaphor for Higher Education: Searching for Evidence of Conceptual Emergence within University Education Strategies
- University of Surrey
Recent research has suggested that Higher Education would benefit from the adoption of institutional models that relinquish ties to industrial thinking and associated metaphors. This long-established, market-led managerial perspective has …
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Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity to reflect on sustainability research
- Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development/Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Technische Universität Berlin
- University of Basel
- University of Bern
The COVID-19 pandemic has jolted societies out of normality, possibly creating new conditions for sustainability transformations. What does this mean for sustainability research? Because of the scope of the crisis, …
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The Alignment of Universities With Sustainable Development Goals: How Do Academics Perceive the Progress (Not) Made?
- Abu Dhabi University
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda have acted as a global unifying force to address social, economic, and environmental sustainability concerns. Higher education institutions (HEIs)/universities have been …
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