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An evidence-based roadmap to integrate planetary health education into the medical curriculum
- Utrecht University
- University of Amsterdam
The urgency for action on climate change is regarded as the defining issue of our time. Planetary health education prepares future healthcare professionals to promote the health of the planet, …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Science with society: Challenges of early-stage researchers engaging with transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
- Utrecht University
- University of Hull
The ongoing social and ecological crises create urgency in academia and elsewhere to devise actionable problem-solving knowledge to tackle sustainability challenges. Transdisciplinary research (TDR) represents a problem-solving methodology for sustainability …
- Posted May 20, 2022
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A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
- Utrecht University
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The …
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Education for the Anthropocene: Planetary health, sustainable health care, and the health workforce
- University of Cambridge
- Utrecht University
- Ontario Tech University (ON)
- Queen Mary University of London
Over the past few centuries, human activity has wrought dramatic changes in the natural systems that support human life. Planetary health is a useful concept for health profession education (HPE) …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Towards an Education for the Circular Economy (ECE): Five Teaching Principles and a Case Study
- Utrecht University
The circular economy (CE) concept is seen by many as a novel pathway to sustainable development. A few scholars have started outlining educational approaches and tools that lecturers can use …
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Assessing curricula contribution to sustainability more holistically: Experiences from the integration of curricula assessment and students' perceptions at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- The Citadel (SC)
- Utrecht University
There has been a rapid increase in the number of engineering schools in higher educational institutions that have incorporated sustainability into their teaching. Nonetheless, curricula reforms are still needed to …
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Experiences of environmental professionals in practice
- Utrecht University
The purpose of this paper is to explore the labor market position of environmental science graduates and the core competencies of these environmental professionals related to their working practice.
The …
- Posted June 19, 2017
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A review of commitment and implementation of sustainable development in higher education: results from a worldwide survey
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
- Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Monterrey
- UC Leuven-Limburg
- KU Leuven
- Utrecht University
During the last two decades, many higher education institutions have become involved in embedding sustainable development into their academic systems. The research for this paper was built upon discussions on …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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Teaching organisational change management for sustainability: designing and delivering a course at the University of Leeds to better prepare future sustainability change agents
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- Utrecht University
- University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)
- KU Leuven
A number of universities worldwide have created new courses and degrees or modified existing ones, as a response to the increasing interest by companies to hire sustainability literate graduates. However, …
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education: Interconnecting the Reporting Process and Organisational Change Management for Sustainability
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- Utrecht University
- KU Leuven
Although there has been a considerable increase in the publication of sustainability reports in the corporate world in the last decade, sustainability reporting in higher education institutions is still in …
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Sustainable Business and Innovation (MSc)
- Utrecht University
As part of this two-year Master’s programme in Sustainable Business and Innovation, you will learn about sustainability challenges and the technological and other options that businesses can use to work …
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Sustainable Development (MSc)
- Utrecht University
This two-year Master’s programme is aimed at students who want to contribute to the design of the solutions needed to achieve an environmentally and socially accountable society. In this programme, …
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Dutch National Pilot with STARS
- Utrecht University
- University of Twente
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Maastricht University
- Wageningen University
In 2013 six Dutch universities started participating in the STARS International Pilot. From January until June they are doing a pilot on their own to find out if STARS is …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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What Information and Communication Technology Can Do To Green Your Campus: A Dutch Perspective
- Utrecht University
- University of Twente
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Maastricht University
- Wageningen University
With each passing year, sustainability becomes a more relevant topic for higher education institutions in the Netherlands. Similar to many countries, our institutions agreed to a collective ambition: to reduce …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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