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Understanding the roles of universities for sustainable development transformations: A framing analysis of university models
- Monash University (VIC)
Scholars have proposed university models for creating a sustainable future in response to mounting calls for universities to rethink their roles in society. These university models include the Human Development ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Sustainable management education and an empirical five-pillar model of sustainability
- Charles Darwin University
Management academics, as the primary researchers of business practices and the educators of future managers, play critical roles shaping corporate behaviour and industry response to global sustainability challenges. However, the ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Narcissism as a global barrier to education for sustainable development
- Troy University (AL)
- Berjaya University College
Narcissism, extreme self-interest, refers to a set of personality characteristics including arrogance, self-centeredness, need for admiration, sense of entitlement, grandiosity, lack of empathy, and interpersonal exploitation, which can range from ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Regional Decarbonization Framework (RDF) - Integrated Long-Term Planning from San Diego County
- San Diego County (CA)
The global scientific consensus is unequivocal: the world is in the midst of a climate crisis and our window to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions is closing. In order to ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Civil Engineering MS, Water Resources Engineering Track
- University of Central Florida (FL)
The Water Resources Engineering track in the Civil Engineering MS program reflects the very broad nature of the field, which encompasses the design, construction, and enhancement of the sustainable infrastructure ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Sustainability challenges in architectural education: assessment of an architectural technology course on the bioclimatic redesign of existing buildings in Greece
- National Technical University of Athens
During the last decades, the sustainable redesign of existing buildings has been gaining importance in both architectural practice and education. While based on the knowledge of the basic principles of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Assessing learning progress: validating a test score interpretation in the domain of sustainability management
- University of Göttingen
- DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education/DIPF Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation (Darmstadt)
This paper aims to provide evidence regarding the interpretation that test scores of a newly developed test instrument reflect learning progress in competence in sustainability management. As competence in sustainability ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Environmental and Social Systems Modeling Graduate Certificate
- Michigan State University (MI)
The Environment and Science Policy Program (ESPP) at Michigan State University (MSU) informs students of modeling techniques for addressing socio-environmental issues in complex systems. This module of courses exposes students ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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The Institute for Environmental Modeling
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
The purpose of TIEM is to do basic research on significant environmental problems that impact the State of Tennessee and have national and international implications. The focus of the Institute ...
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Mahamana Center of Excellence in Climate Change Research
- Banaras Hindu University (Uttar Pradesh)
DST - Mahamana Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research (MCECCR) is an initiative taken at BHU under Prime Minister's National Action Plan on Climate Change. The centre started in ...
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment
- King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Eastern)
- Yanbu Industrial College (Eastern)
Sustainability indicators and assessments are vital in promoting campus sustainability. Despite the plethora of indicator frameworks, campus sustainability assessment in developing countries encounters many challenges including lack of, or restricted ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Environmental Modeling Minor
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
The environmental modeling minor introduces students to the process of spatial modeling as part of a tool set for investigating environmental issues and provides opportunities to apply these skills through ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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Modeling Factors with Influence on Sustainable University Management
- University of Trento (Trentino)
- Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
The main objective of this paper is to present the factors with influence on the sustainable university management and the relationships between them. In the scientific approach we begin from ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Energy Performance of Campus LEED Buildings: Implications for Green Building and Energy Policy
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Many university campuses in the United States are working toward their sustainable goals by adopting energy or green building policies, which require Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification ...
- Posted July 21, 2016
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A Strategy for Energy Performance Analysis at the Early Design Stage: Predicted vs. Actual Building Energy Performance
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Developments in information technology are providing methods to improve current design practices, where uncertainties about various design elements can be simulated and studied from the design inception. Energy and thermal ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Geospatial Analysis and Modeling for the Environment Minor
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
The minor in Geospatial Analysis and Modeling for the Environment (GAME) consists of 6 courses. It is open to any degree-seeking undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Conducting a Transportation Study at a Commuter School - Kwantlen Student Association
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC)
The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) is a not for profit organization that operates independently of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's (KPU) administration. The KSA focuses on providing support for its members ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Geodesign as a collaborative framework for campus-centered sustainability modeling, education and community engagement
- Colorado College (CO)
Geodesign, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based framework, offers the means to assemble multiple place-based perspectives that are foundational to sustainability across the curriculum. We offer the example of an ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Attitudes On and Modeling Of Energy Usage Practices on College Campuses
- Manhattan College (NY)
Last year survey findings related to user behavior from the Information Sciences Institute’s flagship smart grid project (a University of Southern California (USC) research institution) captured attitudes toward energy ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Modeling Urban Form: Expressions of the Operational State of Design-For-Sustainability
- Ball State University (IN)
As a rule students do not have the opportunity to interact readily with those of other disciplines. And so they cannot bring to bear their respective disciplinary experience and knowledge ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Visualizing and Modeling the Drivers in a Holistic Built Environment: Social Justice through Spatial Tools
- Los Angeles Community College District (CA)
- Los Angeles Trade Technical College (CA)
Through years of teaching real projects in architecture and environmental design to a diverse mix of urban Los Angeles students, a new innovative model was born. The model drives change ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Natures Coordinate System: Vertexia, Vector Equilibrium, C60 carbon molecule, explained using hands on modeling techniques.
- Buckminster Fuller Institute (NY)
The basis of Natures Coordinate System comes from understanding the topological reasoning of R. Buckminster Fuller. He used the terminology "Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" as the subtitle to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Predictive Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Climate action plans currently developed by institutions of higher education across the country need to provide various mitigations strategies to achieve carbon neutrality in the "near future". These strategies are ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Cities at University of Kentucky
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The CSC Design Studio is a full service architecture and urban design firm with 30 years of award-winning solar and sustainability-driven design experience. Using advanced energy-efficient building standards and technologies ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Institute of Strategic Economic Studies
- Victoria University (Victoria)
The Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) is led by Professor Bruce Rasmussen, and incorporates the Centre for Policy Studies (CoPS). CoPS will continue to operate in a semi-autonomous ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment
- University of Alberta (AB)
The Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment (CABREE) is an independent research centre located within the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta. Given ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Urban Ecology Research Lab
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
The Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (UERL) is directed by Professor Marina Alberti, and includes interdisciplinary PhD students, post-doctoral research associates, research scientists, and affiliate faculty from diverse disciplines who collaborate ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Practices
- Philadelphia University (PA)
The online Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Practices program is geared toward working professionals seeking to build their knowledge-base and credentials in the field of sustainable design, engineering and construction of ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MS in Water Resource Management
- California State University, Fresno (CA)
The Master of Science degree in Water Resource Management was developed to meet the growing demand for advanced knowledge in water resources and their use in the urban, industrial, and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Design of energy efficient building with radiant slab cooling
- University of Calgary (AB)
Air-conditioning comprises a substantial fraction of commercial building energy use because of compressor-driven refrigeration and fan-driven air circulation. Core regions of large buildings require year-round cooling due to heat gains ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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