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Introduction
AASHE’s publications library is the leading repository of reports, journal articles, books, and student research on sustainability in higher education. Certain publication types are entered in the annual AASHE Awards Program.
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Reducing air travel emissions in academia: an exploration of universities’ manoeuvring room
- University of Graz
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the manoeuvring room of higher education institutions to take action to reduce emissions from academic flying. In particular, this study investigates how university staff …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Governance in the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals in higher education: global trends
- Winona State University (MN)
- Universidade Federal de Vicosa
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Eastern)
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Governance is a key component for implementing sustainable development (SD) initiatives in university teaching, research, and projects. This line of thinking also applies to implementing the United Nations (UN) sustainable …
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Universities and the Doughnut Strategy: Comparative analysis of university strategies and the integration of planetary and social boundaries and the general concept of sustainable development
- Linkoping University
The 21st-century climate crisis and human development are placing a burden on the planet and society and require strategic integration as well as education about sustainable development. Universities are educational …
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Waste governance and campus sustainability: formal and informal waste systems at football tailgates in Michigan
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
Purpose: Football tailgating is a focus of campus sustainability in the United States because it produces large amounts of waste. In states where recyclables can be redeemed for cash, this …
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Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: A Review of an Emerging Research Field
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Teacher Education for Sustainable Development (TESD) is a niche innovation in teacher education that empowers teachers to prepare learners to address global socio-environmental challenges. To advance the diffusion of this …
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The Contribution of Higher Education to Sustainability: The Development and Assessment of Sustainability Competences in a University Case Study
- Imperial College London
Universities can make a significant contribution to sustainability, and the development of sustainability competences in their graduates should be a key outcome of their courses. We propose an assessment framework …
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Bottled vs tap water perceptions, choices and recommendations in a US Midwest university community
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
Purpose:This study aims to determine preference and concerns regarding tap vs bottled water and recommendations to increase tap water use in a US Midwest university. The authors propose interventions to …
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Empowering students to confront environmental injustice: Dialogue, theory, empathy, and partnership
- George Washington University (DC)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- North Carolina A&T State University (NC)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Many students find environmental justice to be emotionally overwhelming and/or politically alienating, and there is currently little work that provides instructors with effective techniques for addressing these types of challenges. …
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Gamification to Improve Participation in an Environmental Science Course: An Educator’s Reflection
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Reticence prevalent among East Asian students has prompted educators to attempt different methods to engage them. Gamification of courses has gained popularity as an avenue to encourage students’ participation, and …
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What do We Know About Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Education for Sustainable Development? A Systematic Literature Review
- University of Vechta
Teacher educators prepare prospective teachers to deliver Education for SustainableDevelopment (ESD) in schools. Lecturersí personal perceptions of ESD guide them inthis work. While there has been some research into lecturersí …
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The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review
- Universidad de Sevilla
Currently, in the field of Sustainable Development (SD), one of the most significant debates is the necessary incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education and, specifically, in higher …
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Benefit-cost analysis of becoming certified pollinator friendly
- Louisiana State University (LA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Despite significant drop in pollinator abundance, no studies exist on the benefits and costs of pollinator conservation in the public domain. An in-person survey was conducted at three large, public …
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Nature as Mentor: Catalyzing First-Year Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Transition Through a Biomimicry First-Year Seminar
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
University students crave immersive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, applied learning contextualized to real world sustainability challenges. Liberal arts and sciences institutions are particularly well positioned to respond. Here we report on our …
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Leadership, support and organisation for academics’ participation in engineering education change for sustainable development
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
This work spotlights the experiences from ten years of implementing sustainable development in all educational programs at a technical university. With a focus on the critical issue of involving more …
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Science|Environment|Health, One Health, Planetary Health, Sustainability, and Education for Sustainable Development: How Do They Connect in Health Teaching?
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern
In this paper, we explore Science|Environment|Health, One Health, Planetary Health, and Sustainability/Education for Sustainable Development in the context of the 2030 Agenda as four major frameworks that take a step …
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Students as co-researchers: Using participatory action research to address college food insecurity
- University of San Francisco (CA)
Studies indicate that college students experience high rates of food insecurity. Growing awareness of food insecurity on college campuses has resulted in efforts by many institutions to address the problem …
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Perceptions and concerns about sustainable healthcare of nursing students trained in sustainability and health: A cohort study
- University of Jaén
Aim: To describe nursing students' perceptions of sustainable health education in the nursing curriculum and their concerns about sustainable healthcare and the impact of climate change on nursing. Background: Sustainable …
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Connection to nature of university students in the environmental field — An empirical study in 41 countries
- Goethe University Frankfurt
People's personal relationships with nature are seen as essential factors influencing environmental behavior. Although human-nature relationships have been a recurring research topic in a wide range of disciplines, there has …
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Valuation of student-led agricultural activities at university: comparison of willingness to pay with inferred values
- Ritsumeikan University
Agricultural fields in university campuses can improve urban nutrition security, increase greenery, and provide opportunities for students to grow crops and enhance self-management skills. We conducted student surveys among freshmen …
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What can Sustainability Schools Learn from the Career Services Offered at Business Schools?
- University of Michigan (MI)
Increasingly, the importance of sustainability as a goal for different sectors in society is becoming paramount. Given the importance and urgency of this, the objective of this paper is to …
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Which “sustainable university” are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature
- Uppsala University
The remarkably growing body of academic literature on the university in relation to sustainability pivots around the idea that the university has an important role to play regarding this issue. …
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Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
- The James Hutton Institute
Purpose: This paper aims to stimulate the nascent research agenda on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing mushrooming of international student mobility (ISM). The higher education (HE) system in the …
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Some Reflections on the Role of the Eco-Schools Program in the Promotion of Sustainable HEIs: A Case Study in Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Currently, the Eco-Schools program plays a key role in the application of the concepts of environmental education and management in the daily life of schools. This program is considered the …
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Experiential Learning for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
- Aston University
This work is about sustainability-related learning experiences for the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) in Higher Education. It arises from the need to motivate students with relevant and interesting …
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Communicating Sustainability Through Websites of Higher Education Institutions of New Jersey
- Seton Hall University (NJ)
Sustainability is integrated into the higher education institutions as a new culture. Since the emergence of various declarations and policies, higher education institutions have integrated, implemented and practiced sustainability in …
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Environmental behavior of university students
- University of Malaga (Malaga)
- ESIC University
Purpose: This study aims to build a model for the analysis of the environmental behavior of university students.
Design/methodology/approach: A partial least square method was adopted, and a questionnaire on …
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Social Capital, Indigenous Storytelling, and Fish Diversity: Learning Together Through Community-university Partnerships in Downeast Maine
- University of Maine (ME)
Not only can community-university partnerships be vehicles for mobilizing community resources and affecting change, they also have high potential to produce useful, nuanced research and enable renewed visions of trust. …
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Campus sustainability plans: past, present and future
- Texas State University, San Marcos (TX)
Purpose: This study aims to describe the different elements included in campus sustainability plans (CSPs) in colleges and universities across the USA.
Design/methodology/approach: It examines the contents and specific areas …
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Higher Education and Food Access: A Case Study of Food Access Initiatives and Their Community Impact
- Central Washington University (WA)
Food security issues are being prioritized across college campuses and among student communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While basic needs services are typically available on campuses, there …
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Embedding sustainable development goals (SDGs) in an undergraduate business capstone subject using an experiential learning approach: A qualitative analysis
- Monash University (VIC)
Universities have an important role in ensuring that business school graduates can address issues regarding sustainable development and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. While …
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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 …
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How to Assess the Carbon Footprint of a Large University? The Case Study of University of Bologna’s Multicampus Organization
- Università di Bologna
University campuses represent a heterogeneous ecosystem as to social, economic, energetic, and personal travel planning with a huge impact on hosting cities and territories. Sustainable policies are thus fundamental to …
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EffSET: a Self-Evaluation Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) plays a prominent part in the process of building the ethical, responsible, and sustainable consciousness of future generations and in addressing the sustainability challenge that …
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Incentives and penalties tied to sales volume in contracts between beverage companies and public universities in the United States
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MD)
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (DC)
To assess whether and how beverage companies incentivize universities to maximize sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) sales through pouring rights contracts. Cross-sectional study of contracts between beverage companies and public U.S. universities …
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A model of behavioral climate change education for higher educational institutions
- University of Arizona (AZ)
This paper puts forth a novel model of Climate Change Education (CCE) targeting to bridge the attitude-behavior gap in students’ climate action, called the behavioral CCE. It refers to relevant …
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Understanding the impact of state-level financial incentives on the deployment of renewable energy at colleges and universities
- Georgia State University (GA)
Over 400 colleges and universities have signed carbon reduction pledges through Second Nature. Nonetheless, a review of their greenhouse gas inventories shows that many universities continue to show limited or …
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Quantifying universities’ direct and indirect carbon emissions – the case of Delft University of Technology
- Technische Universiteit Delft
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive analysis of the carbon footprint of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), including direct and indirect emissions from …
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Using Modified Delphi Study to Develop Instrument for ESG Implementation: A Case Study at an Indonesian Higher Education Institution
- Chung Yuan Christian University
- Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya (South Jakarta)
Most research states that implementing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has positive impacts. However, fewer studies have discussed ESG implementation in higher education. This study aimed to develop instruments to …
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Sustainable entrepreneurial intentions: Exploration of a model based on the theory of planned behaviour among university students in north-east Colombia
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
- Universidad Industrial de Santander
Entrepreneurship is considered the basis of economies, in which finding ways to stimulate it is a constant object of research. With the increasing awareness of social and environmental sustainability, sustainable …
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Integrating sustainability into scientific research
- My Green Lab (CA)
Laboratories have a large environmental impact, with high levels of resource consumption and waste generation. In this article, I discuss some of the actionable strategies that can bring real and …
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On sustainability and higher education: Towards an affirmative ethics
- North-West University (North West)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
Sustainable development has been the dominant focus in sustainability discourses over the past three decades. In 2015, the United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as …
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Teaching sustainable development: an approach to rapidly introducing the UN sustainable development goals into an undergraduate business curriculum
- Dominican University (IL)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether an undergraduate business program that rapidly introduced sustainable development into its curriculum, without an overall curriculum revision, was effective in terms …
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Planetary health education in medical curricula in the Republic of Ireland
- University College Dublin, National University of Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin)
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- University Hospital Galway
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
The World Health Organization considers climate change an urgent global health challenge requiring prioritised action. A recent global survey reported that only 15% of medical schools have incorporated climate change …
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A framework to enable sustainability-oriented transition activities in HEIs: Learnings from two case studies in Germany and Switzerland
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can significantly contribute to sustainability transitions, as they facilitate research, education and knowledge transfer. The integration of sustainability in research touches many scientific disciplines and beyond …
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Internationalisation of Higher Education and Climate Change: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective
- San Diego State University (CA)
- Ghent University
- Eastern Institute of Technology
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and …
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Advancing Sustainability Education through a Cross-Disciplinary Online Course: Sustainability and Human Rights in the Business World
- Florida State University (FL)
Abstract: The increasing threats of climate change, resource depletion, and human rights crises have led us to realize the impendent need for advancing sustainable development education and to reevaluate the …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Sustainable New Product Development for Ten Thousand Villages, a Fair-Trade Social Enterprise: Empowering Women and Economic Development through Problem-Based Service Learning
- Florida State University (FL)
Abstract – Universities have an important role in advancing sustainable development by educating future professionals. As an effective approach to scaling sustainability education, the author implemented a problem-based service-learning (PBSL) …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Campus Zero Waste Program: Toward a Better Understanding of Zero Waste Program Success
- University of Florida (FL)
This research is a part of my dissertation and I have used AASHE Data to look into Zero Waste programs in HEIs
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Campus foodscapes as sites of transformation: mapping policy and projects in US universities envisioning just, sustainable and healthy food systems
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Globally universities have expanded their mission beyond teaching and research: recognising their broader responsibilities to their students, communities and civic neighbours, and to sustainable operations and infrastructure. This research considers …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Differential Vulnerability to Extreme Heat Events Among the UC Campuses: A quantitative analysis of social vulnerability to extreme heat in communities surrounding UC Campuses
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
Extreme heat events are becoming more frequent, intense, and longer as a result of global climate change. Individual characteristics and conditions amplify exposure and impact of extreme heat events. I …
- Posted May 24, 2023
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