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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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Sustainable Product Design Education: Current Practice
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Sheffield
- Technical University of Denmark
- 3Drivers
Current production and consumption patterns are unsustainable, causing irreversible damage to the environment and human health and well-being. Designers play a vital role in resolving this problem—their decisions affect product …
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The Perceived Importance and Intended Purchasing Patterns of Sustainable Foods in Australian University Students
- Western Sydney University (NSW)
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
Although there has been considerable research on consumers’ opinions about sustainable foods and purchasing behaviors, the experience of university students remains unclear. This study aims to characterize university students’ perceptions …
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The socially responsible European university: a challenging project
- University College London (London)
- Universidad de Tarapacá
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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.
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Selection and framing of briefs for educational circular design projects
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- University of Limerick
- Linkoping University
This paper aims to present key characteristics of educational design briefs for the circular economy (CE) through the analysis of 11 design briefs focussing on real-life challenges related to sustainability …
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Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?
- University of the Basque Country
Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits people obtain from nature contributing to our well-being. Although this concept has high didactic potential, its presence in education literature is scarce. This article …
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Toward a sustainability assessment framework of research impacts: Contributions of a business school
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
Business schools have the potential to become an important driver for sustainable development (SD) by broadening their research assessments beyond scientific performance. Assessment frameworks that expand the scope from academic …
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Sustainability at Universities as a Determinant of Entrepreneurship for Sustainability
- Universitatea din București
- Woosong University
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of universities in promoting sustainability and sustainable development goals among Indian students as future entrepreneurs, supporting the mission of sustainability. …
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Investigating Web-Based Sustainability Reporting in Italian Public Universities in the Era of Covid-19
- University of Salerno
- Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Universities are increasingly called to demonstrate to stakeholders their active commitment to responding to social and environmental issues through comprehensive reporting practices. Such expectations were further enhanced by the recent …
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The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment
- Comillas Universidad Pontificia (Madrid)
This research arises from the university’s need to contribute to the training of professionals, especially teachers, who, in turn are committed to contribute to a more sustainable and socially just …
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University students involved in a sustainable world: assessing sustainable consumption in Spain
- Universidad de Salamanca
To achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on sustainable and responsible consumption behaviors. The outputs demonstrate that consumers …
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Education for sustainability in higher education institutions: A multi-perspective proposal with a focus on management education
- Universidade Feevale
- UNIFOR University of Fortaleza
It is crucial to understand which conditions or elements are relevant to the development of more holistic and integrative models for implementing sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is …
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Junkyard Planet: Using Stories to Teach Managerial Accounting with a Sustainability Theme
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
The purpose of this article is to share my experience teaching managerial accounting as a sustainability-themed course using stories. Theme-based learning suggests a relatable theme can make course content more …
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The Culture and Personal Disposal Practices of University Students: A Qualitative Study in Brazil and Germany
- Universidade Federal do Ceará
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between cultural components and municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal individual practices in the context of Brazilian and German university students. To achieve this …
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Developing an Integrated Sustainability Management Approach for Higher Education Institutions
- University of the West of England, Bristol
The Higher Education Institutions' (HEIs) around the world have to pay the main role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for that HEIs need to be sustainable first. This …
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Enabling students to face the environmental crisis and climate change with resilience: inclusive environmental and sustainability education approaches and strategies for coping with eco-anxiety
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
- Université de Saint-Boniface (MB)
As university educators, we should educate students to be able to address the challenges presented by the environmental crisis and climate change by being responsible eco-citizens, and creative, solution-oriented thinkers. …
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Education for Sustainable Development in Spanish Engineering Degrees. Case study
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- University of Cadiz
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide
The purpose of this work is to present a methodology for analyzing the perception of engineering students about the sustainability learning they have achieved during their university studies. This study …
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Exploring personal definitions of sustainability and their impact on perceptions of sustainability culture
- James Madison University (VA)
- Inflexion
The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory analysis of campus community member (i.e. students, faculty, staff) definitions of sustainability, their perceptions of select elements of sustainability culture …
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Universitas: how do students perceive university social responsibility in three European higher education institutions?
- Universidade do Porto
The social dimension of Higher Education has gained relevance on the political and strategic discourses that urge Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to put University Social Responsibility (USR) into action and …
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Cooling supply costs of a university campus
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- EIFER - European Institute for Energy Research
Global climate change and growing research activities lead to increasing cooling demands and related supply costs at universities, while at the same time ambitious goals towards carbon neutral campuses are …
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Using Macromarketing to Teach Business Sustainability
- University of Wyoming (WY)
The first macromarketing seminar held in 1976 represented a first attempt to “hack the system” of business schools to bring a societal focus to the teaching of marketing. This effort …
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Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching
- Wuppertal Institut
The paper investigates how teacher trainees in higher education geography and external, non-scientific partners perceive and experience collaborations in an active teaching and learning approach. Such formats are recommended in …
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Preparedness of higher education institutions for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4: the case of Nepalese universities
- Tribhuvan University of Nepal
The purpose of this paper is to assess the quality of education, research, and governance of Nepalese higher education institutions (HEIs) as a supplement to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 …
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Teaching and learning for change: analysis of a post-graduate One Health program
- Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels Region)
- Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi
- Université de Namur
- Université de Liège
- Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire
- Université de Montpellier
As problematized through the One Health concept, global health issues are defeating conventional disciplinary approaches since they unfold across various scientific domains and across all levels of society. Calling for …
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Driving Transformational Sustainability in a University Through Structural and Academic Innovation: A Case Study of A Public University in Spain
- United Nations University
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly engaged in the urgent and important work involved in the global transition towards sustainable development. They are potentially well suited to address key challenges, …
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Engaging Students in the Development of an Atmospheric Science Course: A Discourse Analysis
- Beijing Normal University
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With increasing emphasis on learners-centered approach in teaching and learning, engaging students in course development and refinement is crucial. This study aims to foster a participatory approach in course …
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A self-assessment tool for social responsibility in higher education. Reporting on a national policy development process in Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Providing higher education institutions (HEIs) with a tool for self-assessing their social responsibility (SR) that generates the information and knowledge necessary to a strategic approach to adopting the Green Paper …
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Incorporating green building into architectural education: what can we learn from the value-belief-norm theory?
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design and Research
- Shenzhen University
Aiming to find out how to incorporate green building into the architectural curriculum, this study aims to explore the psychological path for cultivating architectural students’ awareness and motivation to learn …
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Differentiated Impact of Politics- and Science-Oriented Education on Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Case Study of Chinese University Students
- China University of Geosciences
The purpose of this study is to understand the differentiated impact of politics- and science-oriented education on pro-environmental behavior among university students. A questionnaire was designed and sent to more …
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Applying SDGs as a systematic approach for incorporating sustainability in higher education
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
The achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for all communities and jurisdictions require a comprehensive roadmap that encompasses all dimensions of data infrastructure, social, economic, environmental and governance ecosystems. …
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Higher education institutions, SDG2 and agri-food sustainability: lessons from Chulalongkorn University and Thailand
- Chulalongkorn University
This paper examines higher education efforts linking United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and agri-food system sustainability given reports of stagnant movement for SDG2 in Southeast Asia and lack of …
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Life Cycle Assessment of Compostable Coffee Pods: A US University Based Case Study
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN)
Single-serve machines have proven to be a rapid and convenient mechanism for preparing coffee for consumption. However, disposing the single-use coffee pods accompanying each use creates insurmountable waste in landfills. …
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Praxis-Poiesis: University–Community Relationship in an Epoch of Uncertainty and Disruption
- Brock University (ON)
This paper presents findings from a critical ethnographic study that spanned 3 years from 2018 to 2021 in a Canadian post-secondary context and engaged transdisciplinary quantum feminisms as a conceptual …
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What Does Education for Sustainable Development Offer in Initial Teacher Training? A Systematic Review
- University of Jaén
- Universidad de Granada
Promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education impliesan improvement and quality in the exercise of responsible citizenship, being the key inthe training of future teachers as the main …
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A cost-minimizing approach to eliminating the primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions at institutions of higher education
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
Many institutions of higher education have committed to carbon neutrality. Given this goal, the main economic issue is minimizing cost. As for society as a whole, dominant decarbonization strategies are …
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Towards Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education Institutions: Case of Two Private Universities in Colombia
- Universidad EAN
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
This paper addresses the path followed by two private higher education institutions (HEI) in Colombia towards achieving carbon neutrality. The methodology followed by these universities to achieve a carbon-neutral certification, …
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Advancing SDG competencies in higher education: exploring an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach
- Kristianstad University
This study aims to explore an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach for advancing knowledge and understanding of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at higher education institutions (HEIs).
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Analysis of sustainability insertion in materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes
- University of Campinas
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universidad Católica del Norte
This study aims to analyse how the materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes can be better aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Transforming science and society? Methodological lessons from and for transformation research
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Ecologic Institute
- Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
Transformation research has in the past years emerged as a shared lens to study and support radical societal change towards sustainability. Given the nascent and exploratory—yet highly normative and ambitious—character …
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A framework for implementing and reporting United Nations sustainable development goals in Spanish higher education institutions
- Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias)
This study aims to explore a holistic framework for implementing and reporting sustainable development goals (SDGs) in universities. The aim is to define elements of the content as well as …
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Exploring sustainable student travel behaviour in The Netherlands: balancing online and on-campus learning
- Avans University of Applied Sciences
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Wageningen University
Daily commuting trips of higher education (HE) students account for a large proportion of the carbon footprint of a HE institution. Considerations of students underlying their choice of travel mode …
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Discovering Sustainability in New York City: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Teaching in Urban Institutions
- Empire State College (NY)
Ecological learning is enriched when students can apply course content to their own communities and gain an understanding and experience for deploying sustainable practices. Such merging of content, application, and …
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An empirical study on discussion and evaluation of green university
- Minghsin University of Science and Technology
Sustainable development has become an important criterion for human beings to pursue happiness in their daily lives. In order to ensure the sustainable development of the earth, the first step …
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Perceptions of Environmental Science and Management Students on Synchronous Online Teaching of Environmental Policies: Learning Experience from Southeast Asian Cohort
- University of Greifswald
- Thai Nguyen University Of Agriculture and Forestry
Understanding global environmental policies addresses the aim of educating individuals to become environmentally literate on pertinent issues related to sustainable development. Online classes were established recently in most public universities …
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Social Learning of Sustainability in a Pandemic—Changes to Sustainability Understandings, Attitudes, and Behaviors during the Global Pandemic in a Higher Education Setting
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- University of Klagenfurt
When people learn from each other and change their behavior accordingly, this is called social learning. COVID-19 not only taught us new habits to limit contagion, imposed restrictions also limited …
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Pedagogy for sustainable tourism: reflections on the curriculum space of a master programme in Sweden
- Dalarna University
Tourism education has matured from vocational to more liberal education while current trends underline the importance of critical studies and the shift of curricula to more action-oriented forms of education …
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Addressing the higher education for sustainable development agenda at the College of Open and Distance Learning, St. Mary’s University, Ethiopia: opportunities and challenges
- St. Mary’s University, Ethiopia
This study aims to assess the extent to which sustainable development practices are prevalent at the College of Open and Distance Learning (CODL), St. Mary’s University, Ethiopia. The assessment focused …
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Correlation between electric energy use and CO2 emissions in a university campus in Brazil
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
The purpose of this article is to examine the correlations between greenhouse gas (GHG) by CO2eq emissions and the use of electricity on the Praia Vermelha campus of the Universidade …
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Lean management and sustainable practices in Higher Education Institutions of Brazil and Portugal: A cross country perspective
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- University of Minho
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the perception of Lean management practices and its influence on sustainability practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). The theoretical background was supported …
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Impact culture: transforming how Universities tackle 21st century challenges
- University of York
- Newcastle University
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) (Scotland)
New ways of doing research are needed to tackle the deep interconnected nature of 21st Century challenges, like climate change, obesity and entrenched social and economic inequalities. While the impact …
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Exploring sustainability cross‐culturally: Employees' beliefs on green behaviors
- Concordia University (IL)
- Universidad Surcolombiana
This study explores antecedent beliefs associated with green workplace behaviors within various cultures. Semi-directed interviews were conducted with non-academic employees of Canadian and Colombian universities in order to identify their …
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