Publications
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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Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America
- Berea College (KY)
Where will the next generation of farmers come from? What will their farms look like? Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America provides a concrete set of …
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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College and University Sustainability Officers' Experiences with Green Office Programs: A Qualitative Investigation
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The number of sustainability programs in higher education continues to increase. Green office programs have become a cornerstone of sustainability programming on college and university campuses across the country. This …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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2015 National Solar Jobs Census
- George Washington University (DC)
The Solar Foundation’s National Solar Jobs Census 2015 is the sixth annual update of current employment, trends, and projected growth in the U.S. solar industry. It found that the industry …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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Pedagogy of Passion for Sustainability
- Concordia University (QC)
Our current practices in teaching sustainable management are replete with scientific facts, analytical tools, optimization models, and management techniques. The key pedagogical goal is to help students intellectually understand and …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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Sustainability as a provocation to rethink management education: Building a progressive educative practice
- University of Guelph (ON)
- York University
- Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
An important aim of critical management education is to stand in critique of mainstream educative practice, while engaging in ideas of new possibility and proposals for alternative action. Opportunities for …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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The Role of Transacademic Interface Managers in Transformational Sustainability Research and Education
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Working towards sustainable solutions requires involving professionals and stakeholders from all sectors of society into research and teaching. This often presents a challenge to scholars at universities, as they lack …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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Hard Times in Higher Education: The Closure of Subject Centres and the Implications for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Within many British Universities and, indeed, across higher education internationally, how best to provide education for sustainable development (ESD) has become an increasingly important issue. There is now a widespread …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- University of Tokyo
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
- Maastricht University
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Lund University
A promising approach for addressing sustainability problems is to recognize the unique conditions of a particular place, such as problem features and solution capabilities, and adopt and adapt solutions developed …
- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
- Brown University (RI)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First, …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Assessment of carbon neutrality and sustainability in educational campuses (CaNSEC): A general framework
- TERI School of Advanced Studies
This study presents the cross-institutional Carbon Neutrality and Sustainability in Educational Campuses (CaNSEC) framework. This framework estimates carbon footprints along with overall sustainability of the institution. The carbon footprint analysis …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
The complexity of sustainable development and societal transitions require both analytical understandings of how coupled human-environment systems function and transdisciplinary science-to-practice approaches. The academic discourse has advanced in developing a …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies
This paper explores the ideological and the practical relationship between neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) and the sustainable development agenda of western higher education. Using the United Kingdom and …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Sustainability in Canadian post-secondary institutions: The interrelationships among sustainability initiatives and geographic and institutional characteristics
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
- Dalhousie University (NS)
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This paper aims to report on a census of high-level sustainability initiatives at all accredited post-secondary institutions in Canada by documenting the institutions that have undertaken sustainability assessments, have …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Learning for resilience, or the resilient learner? Towards a necessary reconciliation in a paradigm of sustainable education
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
This explorative paper works across discourses to suggest the possibility and potential of an integrative paradigm for sustainability education that reconciles instrumental and intrinsic educational traditions, informed and infused by …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes
Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Is it even espoused? An exploratory study of commitment to sustainability as evidenced in vision, mission, and graduate attribute statements in Australian universities
- Griffith University (Queensland)
Since Agenda 21 and the United Nations' Decade for Education for Sustainable Development published, higher education institutions have been recognized as playing a critical role in shifting our society's awareness …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Framing for sustainability: the impact of language choice on educational outcomes
- University of Utah (UT)
Because what people do is not based entirely on what they know, the way educators frame sustainability concepts is critical. Framing influences recognized antecedents of pro-environmental behavior such as attitudes, …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Language Fouls in Teaching Ecology: Why Traditional Metaphors Undermine Conservation Literacy
- University of Utah (UT)
- Utah State University (UT)
We believe that the language commonly used in teaching actually hinders the creation of conservation literacy. We examined four frequently used ecology and environmental studies textbooks and considered the ways …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Disrupting neoliberal discourse in critical sustainability education: a qualitative analysis of intentional language framing
- Davidson College (NC)
- University of Utah (UT)
While education for sustainability is a critical task that is gaining ground in a plethora of educational contexts, it is frequently rendered ineffective in the face of neoliberal practice and …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Exploring a transformative orientation to sustainability in universities: a question of loose and tight framings
This review essay examines three new books on higher education and sustainability. It explores a number of the issues raised in the books, in particular, the meaning of a transformative …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Measuring the linkage between strategies on sustainability and institutional forces: an empirical study of Spanish universities
Policy documents are commonly identified as key outcomes that guide initiatives directed by senior university leaders towards sustainability through plans and policies. Many studies have called for a more integration …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Factors influencing the presence of sustainability initiatives in the strategic planning of Spanish universities
Sustainability issues in higher educational institutions have attracted increasing levels of attention from both the public and policy-makers in recent decades. Many studies have called for greater integration of sustainability …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Strategic Planning for Sustainability in Canadian Higher Education
- McMaster University (ON)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This paper reviews representations of sustainability in the strategic plans of Canadian higher education institutions (HEIs). A content analysis of the strategic plans of 50 HEIs was undertaken to determine …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
- Mount Saint Vincent University (NS)
How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Energy Efficiency Jobs in America
This report finds that energy efficiency is a massive employer with 1.9 million jobs nationwide and thousands of jobs in each and every state. The report, based on U.S. Bureau …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Clean Jobs America: A comprehensive analysis of clean energy jobs in America
In this comprehensive analysis of clean energy and clean transportation jobs, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) finds that more than 2.5 million Americans now work in clean energy at businesses across all …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America
- The Pew Charitable Trusts (DC)
Despite a lack of sustained policy attention and investment, the emerging clean energy economy has grown considerably - extending to all 50 states, engaging a wide variety of workers and …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues Into Institutional Investment: A Handbook for Colleges and Universities
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- Amnesty International
The purpose of this handbook is to assist colleges and universities in implementing investment policies that consider environmental, social, and governance issues. Each section of the handbook supports the development …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Student Interest for Environment/Sustainability Undergraduate Programmes: Recent Australian Experience
- RMIT University
Increasingly, employers are seeing the need to have employees who have capabilities in sustainability. The hope is that there will be a sufficient number of appropriately educated people to enter …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Educating for Sustainability: 2017 Sustainable Campus Best Practices from ISCN and GULF Universities
- International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) (MA)
This report, which was released in conjuction with the 2017 World Economic Forum, contains case studies on educating for sustainability provided by 30 members of the International Sustainable Campus Network …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education: an Australian study
The academic literature arguing that there is an urgent requirement for businesses to become more sustainable is rapidly expanding. There is also a demonstrated need for managers to develop a …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Case study for evaluating campus sustainability: nitrogen balance for the University of Minnesota
- Carleton College (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
American ecologists recently began to address the ecology of cities. Concurrently, higher education institutions have developed sustainability education programs and instituted sustainability policies and projects. This paper draws together these …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Towards a vision of a sustainable university
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Sustainable development is the biggest challenge to universities in the twenty‐first century. As many different definitions and interpretations of the concept exist, it is not surprising that the strategies of …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Benchmarking presidents’ compensations in institutions of higher education relative to sustainability and other institutional practices
- Rowan University (NJ)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic effects of academic institutional factors including environmental, social, and economic sustainability indices on the compensation of the president …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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A review of commitment and implementation of sustainable development in higher education: results from a worldwide survey
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
- UC Leuven-Limburg
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- Utrecht University
- Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Monterrey
- KU Leuven
During the last two decades, many higher education institutions have become involved in embedding sustainable development into their academic systems. The research for this paper was built upon discussions on …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Students' Perspectives on an Innovative Approach to Educational Change
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Problem statement: With Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) being an innovative approach to educational change, its principal objective is students’ development of transformation competencies. However, HESD evaluations hardly …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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Corporate Identity of a Socially Responsible University – A Case from the Turkish Higher Education Sector
- Istanbul Bilgi University
Facing increased competition, universities are driven to project a positive image to their internal and external stakeholders. Therefore some of these institutions have begun to develop and implement corporate identity …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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A conceptual synthesis of organisational transformation: How to diagnose, and navigate, pathways for sustainability at universities?
- Maastricht University
Universities will play a profound role in a century in which society will be judged by its capacity for self-transformation in response to pandemic crises of climate change and capitalism. …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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Should we quit our jobs? Challenges, barriers and recommendations for interdisciplinary energy research
- University of Southern California (CA)
- University College Dublin, National University of Ireland
Many plea for a better integration of social sciences in energy research, which would imply more comprehensive interdisciplinary energy research. We argue that in order to achieve this, institutional barriers …
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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A Methodology for Sustainability Evaluation and Reporting in Higher Education Institutions
The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology that allows higher education institutions (HEIs) to promote, to evaluate and to report on sustainability. The ultimate goal of the …
- Posted Jan. 20, 2017
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Engaging sustainability good practice within the curriculum design and property portfolio in the Australian higher education sector
- Deakin University
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which universities’ strategic plans affect the level of incorporation of sustainability within the curriculum design and property portfolio. …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Sustainable imaginaries: a case study of a large suburban Canadian university
- York University
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This paper aims to explore the concept of sustainability imaginaries – unifying core assumptions on what sustainability entails held by stakeholders – set within a large suburban Canadian university. …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Energy challenges: isolating results due to behavior change
- Allegheny College (PA)
Purpose
Approximately 700 colleges and universities have committed to climate neutrality, which will require significant reductions in energy consumption. This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of an Annual Energy …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Transdisciplinary learning and teaching as answers to urban sustainability challenges
Purpose
This paper aims to explain the relevance of science-society interfaces and their potential for higher education institutions to engage stakeholders in supporting sustainable change in cities, via the transdisciplinary …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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University’s multi-scale initiatives for redefining city development
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the varied roles played by the University of Lódz (UL) in maintaining and restoring the natural capital of a city as …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Environmental awareness raising through universities – city authorities’ cooperation
Purpose
This paper aims to the environmental awareness raising as a key issue of education for sustainable development. Youth Environmental Volunteers Movement in the area of coastal oil response operations …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Greening transportation and parking at University of Coimbra
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the potential contribution of integrated traffic and parking management strategies to ensure more rational use of available parking spaces and to reduce fuel consumption …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Quest for a sustainable university: a review
Purpose
The paper aims to deliver a general review of the methods used to pursue the concept of a “sustainable university”.
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The research was Internet based, and it included …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Assessing the Infusion of Sustainability Principles into University Curricula
- The Hashemite University
- Universita degli Studi di Padova
The current paper presents the assessment of the infusion of sustainability principles into university curricula at two Jordanian universities. The peer review process of revising the curricula infusing sustainability principles …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Future-oriented higher education: Which key competencies should be fostered through university teaching and learning?
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Universities play an important role in shaping the future of the world society in terms of sustainable development by generating new knowledge as well as contributing to the development of …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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