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The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals

  • York University

We live in an era of unprecedented planetary and social challenges, including: the climate crisis, globalization of economic markets, social injustice, inequalities, poverty, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, migration, technological automation, …

  • Posted March 10, 2022
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The Emotional Experience of Sustainability Courses: Learned Eco-Anxiety, Potential Ontological Adjustment

  • Concordia University (QC)
  • Queen's University
  • York University

The knowledge content of university-level introductory sustainability courses elicits emotional reactions by students that are novel within the typical classroom context. Common negative reactions include ‘sadness’, ‘worry’, ‘guilt’ and ‘disgust’, …


Field-Based Experiential Education in Geography: Discovering and Rethinking Urban Environmental Challenges and Possibilities

  • Boise State University (ID)
  • York University

Drawing on our experience teaching a 2-week field-based geography course on urban environmental issues, we reinforce the value of field-based experiential education (EE) especially as it faces growing threats. We …

  • Posted April 8, 2021
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Can relational values be developed and changed? Investigating relational values in the environmental education literature

  • University of Vermont (VT)
  • York University

The possible dynamism of relational values is of extreme interest to sustainability scholars and practitioners, yet the fledging field of relational values has seen few research on whether interventions of …

  • Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Integrating and Unifying Competing and Complementary Frameworks

  • University of Georgia (GA)
  • York University

In the field of business and society, several complementary frameworks appear to be in competition for preeminence. Although debatable, the primary contenders appear to include (a) corporate social responsibility, (b) …

  • Posted Oct. 20, 2017
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Sustainability as a provocation to rethink management education: Building a progressive educative practice

  • University of Guelph (ON)
  • York University
  • Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)

An important aim of critical management education is to stand in critique of mainstream educative practice, while engaging in ideas of new possibility and proposals for alternative action. Opportunities for …


Sustainable imaginaries: a case study of a large suburban Canadian university

  • York University

Purpose

This paper aims to explore the concept of sustainability imaginaries – unifying core assumptions on what sustainability entails held by stakeholders – set within a large suburban Canadian university. …

  • Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Kitchen Greenhouse at York University

  • York University
  • Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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Business pedagogy for social justice? An exploratory investigation of business faculty perspectives of social justice in business education

  • York University

What needs to happen in business schools to create a space for social justice? In this article I explore business faculty members’ perspectives on social justice as a means of …


The United Nations' New Global Action Programme, Sustainable Development Goals, and You

  • Portland Community College (OR)
  • University of North Texas (TX)
  • University of Saskatchewan (SK)
  • York University
  • China Green University Network

The Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) highlighted how education institutions have contributed to innovative pedagogy and partnerships, enhanced training, and galvanized whole-institution approaches, thus helping foster a more …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Regional Centers for ESD: Increasing Impact Through Collaboration

  • Portland Community College (OR)
  • Portland State University (OR)
  • York University
  • University of Regina (SK)
  • Aquinas College (MI)

Can you envision healthy, just, and thriving communities where sustainability education is prioritized and everyone has opportunities to shape a more sustainable future? The United Nations University has fostered an …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Canadian On-Campus Sustainability and Social Justice Initiatives

  • York University

Canadian On-Campus Sustainability and Social Justice Initiatives: Findings from a national research project Students are often the initial driver of new community-benefit initiatives on campuses. Regenesis, a Canadian on-campus sustainability …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building the Institution through Campus Sustainability Surveys

  • York University

York University is Canada’s third largest university, with a population of students, faculty and staff numbering approximately 60,000. Many research and teaching programs situated across the university’s 11 faculties incorporate …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Regenesis: Cultivating Change through the Campus ’Perennials’

  • York University

As noted by Ackerman et. al. (2011), sustainability initiatives on campus typically either take a "top-down" or "bottom-up" approach. Top-down approaches involve administrators who create plans and policies and then …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Reviving the Agora: Exploring Diverse Foodways through a Campus Farmers’ Market

  • York University

Creating a sustainable food system and increasing healthy food access at York University’s Keele Campus is a campus community priority. In the last two years, Food Services launched a popular …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Redefining the possible: Community engagement, operational congruency and curriculum integration at York University

  • York University

York University, one of Canada's largest post-secondary institutions, is set in a rapidly changing region of urban Toronto. York has a deep commitment to social justice and environmental sustainability, enshrined …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Bachelor in Environmental Studies (BES)

  • York University

The Bachelor in Environmental Studies (BES) program provides a well-rounded, interdisciplinary education in various fields relating to natural, built and social environments. The program is designed to equip students with …

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Bachelor of Urban Sustainability

  • York University
  • Seneca Polytechnic (ON)

The Urban Sustainability program is offered jointly by York University and Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. Joint programs allow you to combine your university education with specialized, college-based …

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Graduate Diploma in Business & the Environment

  • York University

This Diploma is open to students in both the MES program and the Schulich School of Business MBA program. Pursuing the Diploma will allow you to develop a more focused …

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Graduate Diploma in Environmental/Sustainability Education

  • York University

The Graduate Diplomas in Environmental/Sustainability Education are the only ones of their kind in Ontario. They are jointly offered by the Graduate Programs in Education and Environmental Studies. The concurrent …

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MBA in Business & Sustainability

  • York University

The Business and Sustainability specialization equips students for general management and senior corporate positions, as well as for work in specialist environmental management or consulting posts. To complete the specialization …

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Filling a Local Transportation Gap: Planning for a Cycling Future at York University

  • York University

PURPOSE: This multifaceted study set out to: a) assess the current state of York University's cycling infrastructure; b) determine of feasibility of a bike share at York University's inner suburban …

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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