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Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
- University of Western Australia
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
- University College London (London)
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
- King's College London
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 …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Internationalisation and Climate Impacts of Higher Education: Towards an Analytical Framework
- University College London (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 …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Building University Capabilities to Respond to Climate Change Through Participatory Action Research: Towards a Comparative Analytical Framework
- University of The South Pacific (Central Division)
- University College London (London)
- University of Passo Fundo
- Kenyatta University
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (England)
This paper aims to explore how the principles of participatory action research (PAR) articulate with questions of climate justice. Drawing on three qualitative case studies in Brazil, Fiji and Kenya, …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Scalable pathways to net zero carbon in the UK higher education sector: A systematic review of smart energy systems in university campuses
- Buro Happold (NY)
- University College London (London)
The following literature review sets out the state-of-the-art research relating to smart building principles and smart energy systems in UK higher education university campuses. The paper begins by discussing the …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The socially responsible European university: a challenging project
- University College London (London)
- Universidad de Tarapacá
Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to propose a thesis about the historical evolution of the relationship of the European University in relation to the idea of social responsibility.
Design/methodology/approach: This …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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What Can Sustainability Do for Anthropology?
- University College London (London)
This chapter asks not what anthropology can do for sustainability, but what a more nuanced examination of ‘sustainability’ might do for the reinvigoration of anthropology. By questioning what it is …
- Posted April 25, 2022
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CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar panel: Higher education and sustainability
- University of Bristol
- University College London (London)
- International Association of Universities
Higher education institutions both impact and are impacted by global climate change and the environment. In this conference hosted by the Centre for Global Higher Education, a panel of professors …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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How to Make Your Lab Sustainable
- University College London (London)
If you work in a laboratory setting, this video is for you! Made by a chemistry professor at UCL, one of the biggest research universities in the UK, this video …
- Posted April 30, 2021
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Exhausted: Education and the Response to the Planetary Crisis
- University College London (London)
The climate crisis is of a severity that fills many with a sense of hopelessness. The modest steps that ordinary citizens can take to reduce energy consumption and waste seem …
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Locating a Course on Environmental Justice in Theories of Environmental Education and Global Citizenship
- University College London (London)
Environmental education is an increasingly important concern for policymakers and universities, as it is critical to the success of the broader agenda represented by the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Achieving …
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs
- University College London (London)
Given that tertiary education (TE) is a sector often associated with exclusion, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where only a small proportion of the population gain access, how …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Exploring emerging learning needs: a UK-wide consultation on environmental sustainability learning objectives for medical education
- University of Bristol
- University College London (London)
- University of Hull
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (Oxford)
Objectives: This study aimed to engage wide-ranging stakeholders and develop consensus learning objectives for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
Methods: A UK-wide consultation garnered opinions of healthcare students, healthcare educators …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability (CAOS)
- University College London (London)
The Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability (CAOS) is a research centre that draws together the wide range of work of international excellence on questions related to the notion of …
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Revisiting Global University Rankings and Their Indicators in the Age of Sustainable Development
- University College London (London)
This article is an attempt to facilitate the implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) by encouraging adjustments in international university ranking systems as influential players in the field of higher …
- Posted Dec. 12, 2019
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Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
- AASHE (MA)
- University College London (London)
- University of London
The challenges the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) go deeper than did those of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They require a rethink of the …
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI)
- Columbia University (NY)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Yale University (CT)
- University of Otago (Otago)
- University of Toronto (ON)
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oxford
- University College London (London)
- Maastricht University
- University of Zurich
- Tsinghua University
- University of Hamburg
- Central University of Finance and Economics
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
- Imperial College London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Stockholm School of Economics
The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment was founded in 2017 by a network of global research universities in order to promote rigorous and highly impactful academic research …
- Posted March 14, 2018
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‘Doing the Sustainable Development Dance’: Tracing a Critical Route from the Education for Sustainable Development Movement to Environmental Justice in Legal Education
- University College London (London)
The UN’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2005–14) is nearly over. This has triggered a range of initiatives in schools and, increasingly, in higher and further education. In …
- Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Implementing Sustainability Co-Creation between Universities and Society: A Typology-Based Understanding
- Clark University (MA)
- University of Tokyo
- University College London (London)
- United Nations University
Universities are under mounting pressure to partner with societal stakeholders and organizations to collaboratively create and implement sustainability-advancing knowledge, tools, and societal transformations. Simultaneously, an increasing number of societal organizations …
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Student participation in the co-creation of knowledge and social experiments for advancing sustainability: experiences from the University of Tokyo
- Clark University (MA)
- University of Tokyo
- University College London (London)
Universities around the world are increasingly engaging in multi-stakeholder collaborations for the co-creation of knowledge, tools and experiments with social and technical systems for advancing societal sustainability. With much of …
- Posted June 8, 2016
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Centre for Law and the Environment
- University College London (London)
UCL’s Centre for Law and Environment was established to provide a focal point for the Faculty’s outstanding expertise and academic strength in the field of the environment and the law. …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
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LLM in Environmental Law & Policy
- University College London (London)
All LLM Law students can choose modules from this area of specialism. If students choose to study Environmental Law and Policy as a specialist degree, they should choose modules. To …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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