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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Sustainability practices at higher education institutions in Asia
- University of Waterloo (ON)
- Universiti Putra Malaysia
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina)
- University of Passo Fundo
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) (Perak Darul Ridzuan)
- Beaconhouse National University
- Hiroshima University
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
- Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
- Universiti Utara Malaysia
It is still unclear how Asian universities incorporate the theory or practice of sustainable development (SD) in their research and education programmes. To address this gap, the purpose of this …
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Higher Education for Sustainability: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence 2013–2020
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Higher education for sustainable development (HESD) has grown into a substantial field of research and practice. HESD proposes that higher education will be central in a transition towards more sustainable …
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Stimulating boundary crossing learning in a multi-stakeholder learning environment for sustainable development
- Wageningen University
Sustainable development requires multiple stakeholders to work and learn across practices, in other words, it requires boundary crossing competence. To prepare students for their future sustainability professions, higher education should …
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Integrating Sustainable Development Goals in educational institutions
- Universitat Jaume I (Castelló)
This research contributes to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Education, a growing area of research, by means of a systematic review of the literature on …
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Critical Approaches to Sustainability in the Business Communication Classroom: A Developmental Perspective
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Business communication faculty who invite students to critically engage with issues of sustainability must consider students’ developmental readiness to do so, as these invitations can often seem uninvited. To promote …
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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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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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The University at the Crossroads of Eco-Social Challenges: Pedagogy of Care and the Community of Life for a Transformative Learning
- Universidad de Granada
What kind of responsibility do universities have with regard to the current emergency created by ecological and socio-economic collapse? This work begins by considering the colonization of universities by neoliberal …
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The Influence of Instructional Delivery Modality on Sustainability Literacy
- University of Georgia (GA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
As human environmental impacts have increased, so has the desirability of sustainable practices in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales. In this context, sustainability literacy has become a desirable outcome …
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Music as a Tool for Promoting Environmental Awareness. Experiences of Undergraduate Education Students on the Production of Video Tales in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Universidad de Salamanca
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
This paper elaborates on the didactic implementation of musical theater with undergraduate education students. Students had to select, prepare, justify, design, elaborate, rehearse, stage, and record an educational tale that …
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Scalable pathways to net zero carbon in the UK higher education sector: A systematic review of smart energy systems in university campuses
- Buro Happold (NY)
- University College London (London)
The following literature review sets out the state-of-the-art research relating to smart building principles and smart energy systems in UK higher education university campuses. The paper begins by discussing the …
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Sustainable geography in theory or in practice? Reflections from a participant at NGM 2019
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Academic conferences have a large carbon footprint due to long-distance travel by participants and contribute to increased consumption in other ways. With reference to Stephen Sterling’s distinction between education about …
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Understanding How Stand-Alone Sustainability Courses Are Taught in Marketing: A Global Baseline Analysis
- Utah State University (UT)
The growing societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century are ubiquitous. Thus, marketing educators are tasked with incorporating a sustainability approach into their curriculum, educating students on the synchronous …
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Supporting the role of universities in leading individual and societal transformation through education for sustainable development
- University of Bristol
- Quality Assurance Agency For Higher Education (--None--)
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
- University of the West of England, Bristol
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Advance HE
There is growing recognition of the value of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for all learners, and of the unique role that universities play in the transformation of individuals, institutions …
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Toward a Sustainable University: Babes-Bolyai University Goes Green
- Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
The present research aims to investigate the roadmap followed by a Romanian University implementing sustainability practices and thus contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Informed by the stakeholder …
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Epistemic stability and epistemic adaptability: interdisciplinary knowledge integration competencies for complex sustainability issues
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Global sustainability challenges transcend disciplines and, therefore, demand interdisciplinary approaches that are characterized by cross-disciplinary collaboration and integration across disciplines. In accordance with this need for interdisciplinary approaches, sustainability professionals …
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A Global MetaUniversity to Lead by Design to a Sustainable Well-Being Future
- University of Denver (CO)
- Australian National University
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
The COVID19 pandemic has revealed deep, ingrained problems with higher education, but also opportunities for positive transformation. In the post-COVID world, education at all levels has the chance to become: …
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How to Bring About Change – A Literature Review About Education and Learning Activities for Sustainable Development
- University of Gothenburg
Sustainable development and transformational change have become more critical thanever in the era of climate change. The aim of this literature review was to increase know-ledge on education and learning …
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Assessing climate solutions and taking climate leadership: how can universities prepare their students for challenging times?
- Trent University (ON)
Through this point-of-departure paper we aim to prompt discussion and action around redesigning university learning to help students tackle climate-related challenges in a personally and societally meaningful way. We use …
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From publications to public actions: the role of universities in facilitating academic advocacy and activism in the climate and ecological emergency
- University of Kent
- Cardiff University
- University of Lausanne
Thousands of universities have made climate emergency declarations; however the higher education sector is not rising to the collective challenge with the urgency commensurate with scientific warnings. Universities are promoting …
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Multilevel barrier and driver analysis to improve sustainability implementation strategies: Towards sustainable operations in institutions of higher education
- United Nations University
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
In practice what they preach in research and education, higher education institutions (HEIs) must consider economic, ecological, and social impacts in their quest for sustainable operations. We contribute to the …
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COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development teaching
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
- Universidade Aberta
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of Aveiro
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- University of Chester
- North-West University (North West)
- University of Milano-Bicocca
- Universidade Federal da Paraíba
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis, one which also influences the ways sustainability is being taught at universities. This paper undertakes an analysis of the extent to which …
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Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research
- Maastricht University
- Kozminski University
In this paper, we focus on transdisciplinary action research to explore the key challenge of post-normal science – how to deal with power. First, the paper reviews the literature on …
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Exploring opportunities to incorporate systems thinking into secondary and tertiary chemistry education through practitioner perspectives
- Deakin University
Recently, the chemistry education community has focused considerable effort on incorporating systems thinking into chemistry education as a means to address global challenges such as sustainability. In this project, a …
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SDGs: A Responsible Research Assessment Tool toward Impactful Business Research
- University of Guelph (ON)
- Yorkville University (NB)
An alternative research assessment (RA) tool was constructed to assess the relatedness of published business school research to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The RA tool was …
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Sustainable Smart Cities Challenges in Project Management Curriculum
- The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
Business schools aim to educate and train tomorrow’s managers, who will be responsible to lead their organizations towards success. Since businesses use projects as the main means to implement innovative …
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Learning for the Future: Exploring Effective Characteristics of Sustainability Leadership Programs in Higher Education
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
In response to global environmental, economic, and social issues, universities and colleges have begun to create and expand leadership courses and programs that aspire to foster sustainability change agents. This …
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On the maturity of social responsibility and sustainability integration in higher education institutions: Descriptive criteria and conceptual framework
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
This paper is intended to foster debate on the relevance of social responsibility (SR) and sustainability maturity integration in education for sustainable development goals to be fully achieved. Several contributions …
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Healthy Settings: Barriers and Facilitators to a Healthy Campus Community
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- McMaster University (ON)
- St. Francis Xavier University (NS)
This paper provides a synopsis of findings from the first two phases of a larger campus-based participatory action research study, which examines the factors that contribute to health within a …
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A scale for assessing student understandings of marine resource conservation and sustainability: psychometric verification and the latent mean difference between genders
- Tzu Chi University
- National Taiwan Ocean University
This study developed a scale for evaluating how well students understand marine-resource conservation and sustainability; it evaluated the scale’s psychometric properties and investigated the gender difference in the scale’s score. …
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UNESCO's Education for Sustainable Development Framework and the Reality of University–Community Cooperation in the Caucasus Mountain Region
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- Armenian State Pedagogical University
- Tbilisi State University
The project Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region (CaucaSusT) initiated the integration of transdisciplinary approaches into partner universities in Armenia and Georgia. The aim was to develop …
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Beyond practitioner and researcher: 15 roles adopted by actors in transdisciplinary and transformative research processes
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Wuppertal Institut
To tackle complex sustainability problems, science and practice must join forces and interact in the processes of knowledge co-production. This central claim of sustainability science requires all actors to do …
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Enabling Sustainable Development by Embedding Tongan Knowledge into University Science Curricula
- University of Auckland
Sustainable development requires the valuing of Indigenous knowledges. The complex and intertwined processes of coloniality and globalisation have contributed to spreading a dominant set of Western knowledge, values, and practices …
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Lean practices toward a balanced sustainability in higher education institutions: A Brazilian experience
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Centro Universitário UniFBV
As few studies have explored the causal relationship between both the triple bottom line (TBL) of sustainability and the lean practices in higher education institutions (HEIs), the purpose of this …
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Making sense of frustration and complexity when introducing sustainability in teacher education
- University of Oslo
Teacher educators must question whether we are sufficiently preparing student teachers to educate children and young people who will have to cope with climate and environmental crises. This article reports …
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Nurturing the Seeds of Sustainability Education: Information Regime in Brazilian Public HEI
- Northumbria University (Newcastle Upon Tyne)
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
- Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
We currently live under the Anthropocene, a period in which human beings have generated impacts on nature corresponding to a geological force capable of modifying the planet's biophysical parameters, affecting …
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CSR Education in Economia Aziendale Curricula: An Overview
- Università del Salento
In the last few years, policymakers have underlined the need for new soft and hard skills about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The main debate about CSR education has been driven …
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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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Community-responsive scholar-activist research: conceptualizing capacity building and sustainability in a Northern California community-university partnership
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
We critically examine the ongoing development of a collaborative, responsive, activist research process between academics and farmworkers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with community-based researchers and scholar-activists, we assess our team’s …
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Accelerating the implementation of SDG 4: stakeholder perceptions towards initiation of sustainable community engagement projects by higher education institutions
- University of Mpumalanga
This paper aims to present the results of an investigation on how a reciprocal relationship between the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) in South Africa and the surrounding communities can be …
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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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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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Measuring interdisciplinarity in the context of sustainability research projects toward capacity building in higher education
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework toward facilitating the quantitative measurement of interdisciplinary understanding regarding sustainable energy systems with an application in the area of …
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A hybrid approach to sustainable development competencies: the role of formal, informal and non-formal learning experiences
- University of São Paulo
This paper aims to explore whether formal, non-formal, and informal learning experiences contribute to developing sustainable development competencies (SDCs) among students in a Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatory …
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Promoting language education for sustainable development: a program effects case study in Japanese higher education
- Konan University
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) approaches in English as a foreign language (EFL) in Japanese higher education. A content …
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Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy: An Interdisciplinary Course on Environmental Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis
- Bronx Community College (NY)
Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught course, entitled Sustainability, …
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The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) in higher education institutions (HEIs) is critical to facilitating a transition toward sustainable development. However, little is known about the specific implementation processes that …
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University Social Responsibility: The Case of Italy
- Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
- Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC
Increasing attention is now being paid to the concept of sustainability as a crucial element of our life at all levels. The awareness that attention must be paid not only …
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The Contribution of Higher Education Institutions to the SDGs—An Evaluation of Sustainability Reporting Practices
- Università del Salento
The introduction of Agenda 2030 has impacted the public and private sectors. Agenda 2030 is a document that aims to promote collaboration and partnership between countries and the population for …
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Pedagogies for peacebuilding in higher education: How and why should higher education institutions get involved in teaching for peace?
- Universidad de los Andes
- University of Sussex (Sussex)
- University of Rwanda
- Univerzitet u Sarajevu
This article makes the case for why higher education institutions should take the teaching of peacebuilding seriously. It is co-authored by a team from four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, …
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