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Sustainable Development: Educating With Purpose

• International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) (MA)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “Sustainable Development: Educating with Purpose” is the focus of this year’s ISCNGULF report. In an increasingly fractured world, the Sustainable Development Goals are an instrument for solidarity ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Sustainability-oriented higher education networks: Characteristics and achievements in the context of the UN DESD

• University of Zurich

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are, as a sector, an important actor in society and their role in sustainability transition has been acknowledged. However, their commitments to sustainability expressed through the ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Connecting Cities and Campuses through Climate Leadership Initiatives

• Arizona State University (AZ)
• California State University, Northridge (CA)
• Second Nature (MA)

Climate change presents one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Opportunities for inter-sectoral collaboration to drive climate solutions are beginning to emerge and mature with the higher education sector ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Fostering Sustainability by Management Education

This book presents insights and solutions for more effectively integrating corporate social responsibility into management education. Authors critically review this multifaceted process in a variety of countries. The book is ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Preparing Sustainability-Literate Teachers

• Western Washington University (WA)

Background/Context: This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling ...

• Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Essential Elements of Sustainability in Teacher Education

• Madonna University (MI)
• University of Michigan (MI)
• Creative Change Educational Solutions (MI)

This article focuses on defining the proficiencies new teachers need in order to be able to lead in educating for sustainability (EfS). Educating for sustainability involves teaching and learning collective ...

• Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Vignette question design for the assessment of graduate sustainability learning outcomes

• RMIT University

The development of university wide graduate attributes has become an important mechanism for setting generic learning outcomes across higher education institutions. Many universities around the world have developed sets of ...

• Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Evaluating the Theory and Outcomes of the Teen Advocates for Sustainability Corps (TASC) Summit

• New York University (NY)

The attached research was written as my thesis for a Master of Arts in Environmental Conservation Education, from New York University. It analyzes an environmental advocacy program I developed for ...

• Posted Jan. 5, 2018
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Towards a Theory-Based Framework for Assessing the Mainstreaming of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Teacher Education Institutions in Botswana

This article presents the development of a theory-based framework for exploring the ways in which different teacher education institutions in Botswana have worked towards the infusion of education for sustainable ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Learning about Sustainability—What Influences Students’ Self-Perceived Sustainability Actions after Undergraduate Education?

• Gävle University College

Changing societies’ minds about sustainability requires knowledge about the situation, awareness of what needs to be done and actions to change today’s unsustainable behaviors. Universities are challenged to develop ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Rogative Learning in Education for Sustainable Development: Environment, Human Rights and Democracy

• University of Gothenburg

The question underlying the investigation in this paper is how within a context of education for sustainable development it is possible to learn about the environment, human rights and democracy ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Methodology of energy efficient building refurbishment: Application on two university campus-building case studies in Italy with engineering students

• Polytechnic University of Milan

Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) has launched since 2011 the project “Città Studi Sustainable Campus” to improve the university’s sustainability performances within three main principles: building refurbishment, sustainable campus development ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Fossil fuel divestment in US higher education: student-led organising for climate justice

• Pitzer College (CA)
• Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)

Based on over one year of participant observation within the student-led fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement, this article contextualises the origins, successes, challenges, and inner workings of the FFD movement ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Evaluating the engagement of universities in capacity building for sustainable development in local communities

• Bournemouth University (Dorset)
• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• University of Beira Interior
• University of Passo Fundo

Universities have the potential to play a leading role in enabling communities to develop more sustainable ways of living and working however, sustainable communities may only emerge with facilitation, community ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Energy planning of university campus building complex: Energy usage and coincidental analysis of individual buildings with a case study

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Zhejiang University
• Nanjing University of Science & Technology

As the demonstration of eco-communities, energy planning becomes more and more important for university campus. However, insufficient energy use data accumulation has been a significant barrier against fully understanding of ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Education for Sustainability in Universities: Challenges and Opportunities for Change

• RMIT University

Education for sustainability (EfS) is widely supported and researched; however, the broad and deep implementation of EfS in universities that is needed lags behind the goals of change agents. This ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Development of a web based energy management system for University Campuses: The CAMP-IT platform

• Technical University of Crete

University campuses can be considered as small towns due to their size, number of users and mixed and complex activities, including numerous actions usually met in urban environments. The energy ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Best Option For Reducing On-Campus Private Car-Based CO2 Emissions: Reducing VKT Or Congestion?

• Middle East Technical University

Reducing carbon footprint, especially from private cars, is an inevitable goal of sustainable transportation programs. Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, has a fairly large campus, for which ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Adoption of sustainable development reporting by universities: An analysis of French first-time reporters

• National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts

The purpose of this paper is to study the issuance of sustainable development reports by French universities, based on two dimensions proposed by Ansari et al. (2010): extensiveness and fidelity ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Why It Matters How We Frame “Education” in Education for Sustainable Development

• University of Otago (Otago)

We analyzed two educational frameworks that seek to embed “education for sustainable development” into higher education (HE). Both identify that HE is failing to educate graduates able to address the ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Visualization of energy and water consumption and GHG emissions: A case study of a Canadian University Campus

• Carleton University (ON)

Campuses, communities, and other building clusters are major users of energy and water and thus can have a significant environmental impact. Frequently, their buildings’ resource consumption is metered to various ...

• Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Understanding the energy consumption and occupancy of a multi-purpose academic building

• Heriot-Watt University

Building energy use associated with non-domestic buildings accounts for approximately 19% of the total UK CO2 emissions. Energy consumption in a non-domestic building is a complex issue due to a ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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An Analysis of STARS as a Sustainability Assessment System Universally Usable in Higher Education

• Technische Universiteit Delft

Sustainability assessment has become an important tool for measurement of higher education institutions. Although there are many potential tools for measuring an institutions’ level of sustainability, this paper explores the ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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"Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get At It!" Climate Change Education in Teacher Education

• Lakehead University (ON)

We present findings from research on a nine-week elective course, Climate Change Pedagogy, taught for the first time in the Bachelor of Education program at Lakehead University in Winter 2014 ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Research on the suitability improvement of the standard of green campus in China based on STARS

• Zhejiang University

Under the tide of green building, many countries introduce actively evaluation standards of green campus and develop the construction of green campus. China introduced the Green Campus Evaluation Standards (CSUS ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Radically different learning’: implementing sustainability pedagogy in a university peer mentor program

• Portland State University (OR)

Sustainability education is a growing field within higher education that fosters personal and intellectual engagement with the interconnected tensions of pressing social, ecological, economic, and political issues. Sustainability education aims ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Modeling Factors with Influence on Sustainable University Management

• University of Trento (Trentino)
• Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

The main objective of this paper is to present the factors with influence on the sustainable university management and the relationships between them. In the scientific approach we begin from ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Fostering connectedness to nature in higher education

• Pennsylvania State University (PA)

Environmental thinkers and educators have argued for the importance of celebrating our connectedness to nature, or the perception of being part of, rather than separate from, the natural world. Using ...

• Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Environmental sustainability in higher education: What do academics think?

• Deakin University

The slow uptake of Education for Sustainability (EfS) curricula in universities has, partly, been attributed to academics’ perceptions that EfS has little relevance within some disciplines. Understanding teaching academics’ attitudes ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Energy use assessment of educational buildings: Toward a campus-wide sustainable energy policy

• Texas A&M University (TX)
• University of Florida (FL)
• Queensland University of Technology

The purpose of this article is to assess the viability of blanket sustainability policies, such as Building Rating Systems in achieving energy efficiency in university campus buildings. We analyzed the ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Emerging dimensions of sustainability in institutes of higher education in India

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

The institutions of higher education provide role models for excellence in education. But also have the added responsibility of providing guidance to the community for social upliftment and environmental sustainability ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Education for sustainable development in higher education: evaluating coherence between theory and praxis

• Universidade Aberta

Universities are an important part of the process of change taking place in society. However, this is often overshadowed by these institutions giving priority to technocratic models in the relationship ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Ecological literacy and beyond: Problem-based learning for future professionals

• University of Campinas
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
• Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (Itabuna - BA)
• University of São Paulo
• Technical University Munich

Ecological science contributes to solving a broad range of environmental problems. However, lack of ecological literacy in practice often limits application of this knowledge. In this paper, we highlight a ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Do your neighbors affect your bicycling choice? A spatial probit model for bicycling to The Ohio State University

• California State University, Fresno (Ca)
• The Ohio State University (OH)

Neighborhood social effects have recently become a focus of interest in transportation research, whereby transportation mode choice is not only affected by an individual’s characteristics and transportation system conditions ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Designing and Teaching Business & Society Courses From a Threshold Concept Approach

• The University of New Mexico (NM)

This article examines the redesign of an undergraduate course in Business & Society using a threshold concept approach. Business & Society courses may be troublesome for students because they depart ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Complex matrix for the analysis of sustainable transformative learning: an assessment methodology of sustainability integration in universities

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

Several papers propose analytical methods relating to the inclusion of sustainability in courses and universities. However, as sustainability is a complex subject, methodological proposals on the topic must avoid making ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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College Students' Emissions “Foodprint”: Can Eco-Labels Shift Diet Types?

• University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Due to the higher greenhouse gas emissions from livestock food production compared to plant-based food production, it is imperative that consumers shift their diets away from meat. One possible method ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Are geography students good “environmental citizens?” A comparison between year of study and over time

• Keele University

Are geography students good “environmental citizens?” Has this improved over time with increasing emphasis on sustainability within higher education? This paper compares environmental attitudes and behaviours of geography students at ...

• Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Assessment and evaluation of higher education in business management: an analysis of the Brazilian case in the light of social learning theory for sustainability

• Mackenzie Presbyterian University
• Centro Universitário da FEI
• FUCAPE Business School

This article presents an analysis of Brazilian National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES) in the light of social learning for sustainability theory. The aim is to contribute to the ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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A post-occupancy evaluation of a green rated and conventional on-campus residence hall

• University of Arizona (AZ)
• Royal Institute of Technology

Green buildings increasingly attract attention in the real estate sector, and the United States is no exception. Studies indicate that green rated buildings may bring higher rents and sales prices ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Toward conservational anthropology: addressing anthropocentric bias in anthropology

• Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Anthropological literature addressing conservation and development often blames ‘conservationists’ as being neo-imperialist in their attempts to institute limits to commercial activities by imposing their post-materialist eco-ideology. The author argues that ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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If a tree falls: business students' reflections on environmentalism

• The Hague University of Applied Science

Environmental advocacy has a difficult position within environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). Proponents of pluralistic approaches to education see advocacy as a form of indoctrination. However ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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On-Site Energy Management by Integrating Campus Buildings and Optimizing Local Energy Systems, Case Study of the Campus in Finland

• Aalto University

This research describes the potential study on the impact of energy improvements of existing campus buildings by on-site energy management and operational strategies. The focus buildings in the campus were ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Ecoversity: the potential for sustainable development to reshape university culture and action

• Bradford University (West Yorkshire)

This paper describes an institutional strategy (Ecoversity) to embed sustainable development across the full range of university activities and services and reflects on two different phases of Ecoversity providing illustrations ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Universities as sustainable communities: a prospectus for people and places

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of universities as sustainable communities and to identify the requirements for achieving this role. The paper outlines the evolution of ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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The green campus is also a virtual one

• Aston University

This paper analyses the role of education for sustainability as enabling future sustainability practitioners to become key change agents and leaders. It is important that generic skills and understandings are ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Sustainable procurement: human rights and greenhouse gas emissions

• University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)

This paper reports on research based on the University of Leeds' supply chain as part of its sustainable development programme. The research examines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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What does a sustainability manager do? Sustainable development at the University of Leeds

• University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)

Abstract This paper discusses a large UK university's sustainable development programme and provides a framework for replication in other educational organisations. The development and implementation of its environmental management ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Empirical Study of Parking Problem on University Campus

• Beihang University

In recent years, more and more university employees tend to choose their residences in places outside the campus. As a result of this change, the number of private cars owned ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Parking at the UC campus: Problems and solutions

• University of Coimbra

This study underscores the importance of adopting integrated parking management policies that ensure not only more rational use of the available parking spaces, evenly balancing supply and demand and bringing ...

• Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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