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Leading by listening, learning by doing: modeling democratic approaches to conservation leadership in graduate education

  • University of Florida (FL)
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Universidad Veracruzana
  • Technological Institute of Ursulo Galván

Conservation professionals are increasingly called on to adopt democratic approaches that integrate public concerns and diverse societal voices yet are not taught how to do so. We use a case …


Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships

  • Arizona State University (AZ)
  • Portland State University (OR)
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fast-paced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity …

  • Posted March 4, 2019
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Transferring Sustainability Solutions across Contexts through City–University Partnerships

  • Arizona State University (AZ)
  • Portland State University (OR)
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The urgency of climate change and other sustainability challenges makes transferring and scaling solutions between cities a necessity. However, solutions are deeply contextual. To accelerate solution efforts, there is a …

  • Posted Nov. 26, 2018
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Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science

  • Arizona State University (AZ)
  • University of Tokyo
  • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  • Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Maastricht University
  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • Lund University

A promising approach for addressing sustainability problems is to recognize the unique conditions of a particular place, such as problem features and solution capabilities, and adopt and adapt solutions developed …

  • Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Building Community Partnerships to Promote Sustainable Waste Practices

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus León

As part of a research project run by the Sustainability department at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad León (ENES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico, professors …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrating sustainability education into universities

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus León

During this workshop we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different strategies for integrating sustainability education into universities as well as the real-world, experiential pedagogy used to target sustainability …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Waste management and recycling at the National University of Mexico

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)

The National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) as part of one of the world’s largest cities faces a number of problems related to the generation, management and the physical capacity …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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ECOPUMA, the strategy for Sustainable University of UNAM

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the main cultural project of Mexico and the most important university in Latin-America. Attends 330,382 students and produce 35.2% of the scientific …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Education for Sustainability at UNAM

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
  • Environmental Leadership Program (MD)

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) contributes to the formation of new generations, providing a vision that allows them to build multidisciplinary solutions for increasingly large and complex problems, …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Curriculum Development: Overcoming Challenges in the National Autonomous University of Mexico

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the oldest academic institution in Mexico and has developed as a highly recognized research and education institution with a long history of …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Capacity Building Program for Sustainability: Collaborative Planning in Mexico

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)

The urgent transformation required by society towards sustainability compels the development of a new paradigm in capacity building, where both citizens and professionals have the capacity to interact, understand and …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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