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Sustainable development goals research in higher education institutions: An interdisciplinarity assessment through an entropy-based indicator
- University of Agder
- Università degli Studi di Torino
Since 2015, the United Nations has urged higher education institutions (HEIs) to adopt an interdisciplinary approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, universities are encouraged to transcend ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Food sustainability perception at universities: Education and demographic features effects
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Palermo
The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations merged in 17 goals the strong need to change the pattern of human life on the planet in a path of strengthening sustainability ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Education for sustainable development: a critical reflexive discourse on a transformative learning activity for business students
- Università degli Studi di Torino
This paper presents in detail a critical reflexive discourse on a transformative learning activity that engaged 140 students of the “Risk Management and Green Business Strategy” module at the University ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Enhancing the accountability and comparability of different campuses’ energy profiles through an energy cluster approach
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
International sustainability ranking systems generally set criteria in order to monitor global achievement of universities in terms of sustainability. However, current sustainability ranking systems do not provide specific consumption thresholds ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Ecologized Collaborative Online International Learning: Tackling Wicked Sustainability Problems Through Education for Sustainable Development
- Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
- Robert Gordon University
- Keele University
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Coventry University
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is increasingly embedded in higher education(HE) due to the current emphasis on tackling the environmental crisis. Similarly, CivicSociety Organisations are expanding their mobilization and ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Quantitative assessment of environmental impacts at the urban scale: the ecological footprint of a university campus
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
This paper explores the consumption-based ecological footprint method and its application aiming at a quantitative assessment of the sustainability of a university campus. The goal is to inform the planning ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Intention to adopt pro-environmental behaviors among university students of hard and soft sciences: the case of drinking by reusable bottles
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
The market of bottled water is one of the largest in the world. Paradoxically, the consumption of water in plastic bottles is highest in countries rich in the potable tap ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Conceptualization of sustainability among students, administrative and teaching staff of a university community: An exploratory study in Italy
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
- Sapienza Università di Roma
Universities have been widely recognised as unparalleled potential catalysers for sustainability, being both formal learning institutions and places where informal, mutual influences and lay/expert knowledge meet. The 17 Sustainable ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Universities and Multistakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development: A Research and Technology Perspective
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
If we have any hope of achieving sustainability, we, as researchers, need to develop a new perspective on universities and multistakeholder engagement. Stakeholder theory teaches us that engaging stakeholders in ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Brescia
The Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability (IRIS) is an Inter-University Centre constituted by the University of Turin (Department of Animal and Human Biology and Department of Economics "Cognetti de Martiis ...
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Education of sustainable development goals through students’ active engagement: A transformative learning experience
- Università degli Studi di Torino
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss and present new teaching techniques to advance the concept and the practice of education for sustainable development (SD). Due to the ...
- Posted March 4, 2020
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About the Triggering of UN Sustainable Development Goals and Regenerative Sustainability in Higher Education
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Humans are at the center of global climate change: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are igniting sustainability with proactive, global, social goals, moving us away from the Brundtland ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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The process of social accounting and reporting at University of Torino: main challenges and managerial implications
- Università degli Studi di Torino
The process of social accounting and reporting performed by universities is a voluntary mechanism through which academic institutions could freely communicate the fulfilment of their social responsibilities to the open ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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