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Climate Change and Society (Master)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
The Master’s degree program in Climate Change & Society provides critical skills, knowledge, and expertise in climate science and climate adaptation. This program also prepares graduates to meet the ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Agriculture and Society (Bachelor)
- Iowa State University (IA)
The interdisciplinary, four-year Agriculture and Society (A&S) program emphasizes the application of social science knowledge to agriculture and rural problems, and draws upon the expertise of faculty in sociology, economics ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Understanding sustainability as a cyclical process: insights from social innovation and the adaptive cycle
- University of Portland (OR)
Purpose: This paper aims to understand why higher education institutions (HEIs) struggle to become sustainable institutions themselves despite providing relevant teaching and research on sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: Using 17 ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Social sustainability reporting in European business schools
- Universitat Ramon Llull
Purpose: This study aims to explore the social sustainability reporting (SR) of top European business schools to illustrate and discuss their practices and the associated challenges. Design/methodology/approach: For ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Social & Financial Sustainability: What Is Its Role in the Sustainability Dialogue?
- Sonoma State University (CA)
Sustainability denotes many things to many of us. But to the majority in education space, if you have offered a sustainability course it means you have done something related it ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Sustainability challenges and territorial impact: the role of Higher Education Institutions
- Politecnico di Torino
Complex sustainability problems require an immediate action. Therefore, the involvement of multiple agents to face a concrete shift in the global system is necessary. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have the ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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Intersectional Sustainability and Student Activism
- Southwestern University (TX)
- AASHE (PA)
In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of ...
- Posted Feb. 4, 2021
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Student representations and conceptions of ecological versus social sciences in a conservation course
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
There is consensus among scientists that it is important that students understand the nature of science (NOS) and are competent in using primary literature to support understanding of complicated environmental ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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A framework for teaching socio-environmental problem-solving
- Georgetown University (DC)
- James Madison University (VA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- North Dakota State University (ND)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) (MD)
The urgent environmental challenges we now face, from climate change to biodiversity loss, involve people and the planet, the social, and the environmental. Teaching students to become effective socio-environmental problem-solvers ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Bridging Intellectual Capital, Sustainable Development and Quality of Life in Higher Education Institutions
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Lisbon
This paper analyses the relationship between the intellectual capital of higher education institutions (HEIs) and their sustainable development practices, and assesses whether higher education institutions’ sustainable development practices are related ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Weaving Equity and Sustainability into the Fabric of Higher Education: The University of Utah Experience
- University of Utah (UT)
Sustainability is an idea that is celebrated, loathed, or deemed entirely useless given its many meanings and approaches. While scholars broadly agree it must include merging ecology, economy, and equity ...
- Posted March 4, 2020
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Webinar: Sustainability Master Planning from All Perspectives
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Ayers Saint Gross (MD)
- AASHE (PA)
Using Texas A&M University as a case study, staff will introduce integrated sustainability master planning from all perspectives: social, environmental, and economic. Both a campus level and department level plan ...
- Posted Sept. 20, 2019
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Developing and Testing a Method to Measure Academic Societal Impact
- University of Kent
- University of The South Pacific (Central Division)
- University of Coimbra
This paper aims to extend understanding of the business and societal impact of academic research. From a business school perspective, it has taken stock of the role of academic research ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Assessing sustainability reports of US universities
- University of Hamburg
The purpose of this study is to assess sustainability reports of US universities to provide findings on the relative importance of disclosure topics. The authors conducted content analysis by using ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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Exploring the Presence of the Economic and Social Dimensions of Sustainability Within Higher Education Classrooms
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
Sustainability is commonly comprised of three main dimensions: environmental, economic, and social. The environmental dimension, sometimes referred to as the ecological dimension, concentrates on the reduction of negative human impact ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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