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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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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Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities
- Northeastern University (MA)
Moving beyond technocratic approaches to climate action, climate justice articulates a paradigm shift in how organizations think about their response to the climate crisis. This paper makes a conceptual contribution ...
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Intrapersonal capacities for sustainability: a change agent perspective on the ‘inner dimension’ of sustainability work
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
An ongoing discussion in education for sustainable development (ESD) research has focused on defining a list of agreed upon sustainability competencies required for the work of sustainability change agents. This ...
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Freire’s hope in radically changing times: a dialogue for curriculum integration from science education to face the climate crisis
- Universidad de Chile (Region Metropolitana)
- Escuela Básica Playas Negras in Coronel
This article advances a dialogue for understanding curriculum integration as a form of radical pedagogy, starting from science education in times of climate crisis. The paper weaves Paulo Freire’s ...
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Student Development in Higher Education in the Era of the Agenda 2030 and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Towards SDGs 2.0
- Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Universities South Africa
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona was an occasion for the authors of this article to reflect on the UN Sustainable Development ...
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Active methodologies and curricular sustainability in teacher training
- University of Jaén
- Universidad de Granada
Purpose: Changes in society, the economy and health require a response from higher education regarding the training of professionals, specifically, future teachers. In this sense, active methodologies constitute, in line ...
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Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Coimbra
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Open University of the Netherlands
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
- Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Background: The implementation of sustainability at universities means that they can also play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy, and in assisting global efforts towards ...
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Is IoT monitoring key to improve building energy efficiency? Case study of a smart campus in Spain
- University of Zaragoza
This work validates and demonstrates the potential of a methodology based on a continuous monitoring system with real time measurements, as a key support to make decisions on buildings energy ...
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Decolonising the design curriculum: making “sustainability” accessible, understandable and practicable to second-year undergraduate architecture students
- University of Queensland (QLD)
Purpose: This paper describes the curriculum design of an architectural studio course aimed at making concepts of sustainability accessible, understandable and practicable to second-year undergraduate students. Architectural education and design ...
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The sustainable development goals in a Bachelor of Design course; current integration and benefits, constraints and opportunities for deeper integration
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Purpose: Universities’ unique position within society means they have an important role to contribute to sustainability and to help achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are one of the ...
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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 ...
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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.
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An assessment of attitudes and perceptions of international university students on climate change
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Beira Interior
- Liverpool John Moores University
- Addis Ababa University
Universities have an unrivaled potential to educate students on climate change issues and to actively engage them in climate affairs, both as citizens and influencers of future professions. Despite this ...
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Ensuring sustainability in internationalisation efforts at higher education institutions
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
- University of Nottingham
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- National University of Sciences and Technology (Federal)
- Università di Bologna
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Purpose: Higher education institutions (HEIs) around the world are engaged in internationalisation efforts. Yet internationalisation per se is associated with significant pressures on the environment and environmental resources, which need ...
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Addressing the Challenges of Preparing Teachers to Teach about the Climate Crisis
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Teachers often lack adequate teacher preparation in knowledge and practices for engaging their students to address the climate crisis, suggesting the need for an increased focus on climate change in ...
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Universities confronting climate change: beyond sustainable development and solutionism
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This article reflects on recent calls for universities to deepen their commitments to sustainability in the face of climate change. It suggests that because climate change is a “wicked problem ...
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Changing the world one engineer at a time – unmaking the traditional engineering education when introducing sustainability subjects
- Linkoping University
Purpose: The information technology (IT) sector has been seen as central to society's transformation to a more just and sustainable society, which underlines teachers’ responsibility to foster engineers who ...
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Preliminary Investigation of Sustainability Awareness and Activities among Academic Libraries in the United States
- University of Southern California (CA)
This paper explores sustainability, sustainability awareness, and how it is measured in academic libraries in the United States, and considers how assessment tools or key performance indicators (KPIs) could enhance ...
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Systems thinking for systems leadership: promoting competency development for graduate students in sustainability studies
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Purpose: This paper aims to offer a case study for teaching specific systems thinking competencies that promote leadership for systems change. It uses leadership as a novel way to identify ...
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Analyzing Green Behavior and the Rational Use of Water in Portuguese Higher Education Campuses
- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
- Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
- Politécnico de Lisboa
- Instituto Politécnico de Beja
In the forthcoming years Portugal expects to be an increasingly hot and dry country dealing with the risk of water scarcity. According to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere ...
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Undisciplining Environmental Communication Pedagogy: Toward Environmental and Epistemic Justice in the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Classroom
- Allegheny College (PA)
This article moves beyond an understanding of environmental communication as merely the “translation” of scientific knowledge for the general public and advocates for environmental science and sustainability (ESS) educators to ...
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Creating Cultures of Health in the Academy: Bringing Together Top-Down and Ground-Up Approaches
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
This article reports on a 3-year longitudinal study focused on the impact of cross-sector, collective impact approaches to creating cultures of campus health. The study sought to understand the integration ...
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Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education
- Beijing Normal University
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe
In this short article, we pose six key questions that we argue as essential to critically problem-pose in achieving teaching for justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education (HE). We ...
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Eco-critical language awareness for English language teaching (ELT): Promoting justice, wellbeing, and sustainability in the classroom
- University of Alabama (AL)
Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention to power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert ...
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Higher education in turbulent times: navigating the transition from un-sustainability in a world dominated by technology
- Atlantic Technological University (Co. Galway)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the implications for higher education of a rapidly changing global context, where technologies play a role in the propagation of ...
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Integrating sustainability themes for enhancing interdisciplinarity: a case study of a comprehensive research university in Japan
- Tohoku University
Interdisciplinary education and education for sustainable development provide a complementary approach to enhancing learners’ interdisciplinary and sustainability competencies. An interdisciplinary approach is considered a crucial method for enhancing university students ...
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Light Green – A Case Study of Sustainability Decoupling in Hospitality Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
Despite an increased commitment to sustainability, some argue that the hospitality industry and its supporting academic field remain “light green” as actual sustainability initiatives are shallow and decoupled from stated ...
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Research on sustainability leadership in higher education: a scoping review
- Mahidol University (Bangkok)
Purpose: Despite the centrality of leadership to the successful transformation of universities toward sustainability, the literature on the role and practices of sustainability leadership in higher education remains poorly developed ...
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Connecting curricula and competence through student learning journeys
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This research examines the connection between higher education curricula for sustainable development and student development of key competencies for sustainability. The authors conducted a comparative case study that followed ten ...
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Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences
- Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Given the prominence of sustainability in current global crises and the commitment of societies to the Sustainable Development Goals, this mixed methods study ascertains how Dutch higher education students (N ...
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Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education Institutions: A systematic literature review
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are important actors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. As agents of ...
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Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
- University of Western Australia
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
- University College London (London)
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
- King's College London
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging ...
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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 ...
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The Ecological Root Metaphor for Higher Education: Searching for Evidence of Conceptual Emergence within University Education Strategies
- University of Surrey
Recent research has suggested that Higher Education would benefit from the adoption of institutional models that relinquish ties to industrial thinking and associated metaphors. This long-established, market-led managerial perspective has ...
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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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Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity to reflect on sustainability research
- University of Bern
- University of Basel (Basel-Stadt)
- Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
- Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development/Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (Brandenburg)
- Goethe University Frankfurt
The COVID-19 pandemic has jolted societies out of normality, possibly creating new conditions for sustainability transformations. What does this mean for sustainability research? Because of the scope of the crisis ...
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Planetary health pedagogy: Preparing health promoters for 21st-century environmental challenges
- Deakin University
Issue addressed: Multiple interconnected drivers threaten the health and wellbeing of humans and the environment, including biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, rapid urbanisation and displacement. This requires enhanced literacy on ...
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Reporting University Performance through the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda: Lessons Learned from Italian Case Study
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
The shift of sustainability paradigms within the academic context has prompted universities to develop additional accountability tools to respond to the resulting demand for information. However, in terms of social ...
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Cultivating students’ sustainability-oriented learning at the interface of science and society: a configuration of interrelated enablers
- Wageningen University
Purpose: By envisioning the learning environment as an eco-social system, this study aims to map interrelated enablers of students’ sustainability-oriented learning (SoL) in the context of a university course at ...
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What’s In a Name? The Signifiers and Empty Signifiers of Environmental Sustainability Education: Implications for Teacher Education
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- Brock University (ON)
The purpose of this article is to examine how signifiers and empty signifiers may contribute to the mainstreaming of environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. We argue that the ...
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Embedding Environmental Sustainability Education in a Master of Teaching Program: Reflections on Improvisation and Learning-by-Doing at OISE
- University of Toronto (ON)
The aim of this paper is to share our story about introducing environmental sustainability education (ESE) in an initial teacher education (ITE) program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in ...
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Exploring Effective Pedagogies in Environmental and Sustainability Education for Teachers: A Story of New Zealand Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Experiences
- University of Auckland
Although teachers have been identified as key change agents in the shift towards a flourishing planet for all, research into effective pedagogies for embedding environmental and sustainability education (ESE) into ...
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Teaching the ecosystem service concept: experience from academia
- Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
- University of the Basque Country
Although ecosystem service (ES) is a well-established concept among the scientific community, it has not reached the mainstream of public awareness because it lacks wide recognition among citizens and educators ...
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Testing an instrument to assess the perception of climate change policies in universities: the case of Salamanca University
- Universidad de Salamanca
Purpose: This study aims to introduce a new instrument to assess the perception of the university community after the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) and its application at the Universidad de ...
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Transdisciplinary learning exercise on post occupancy evaluation and retrofitting of built spaces
- College of Engineering Trivandrum
The need to develop sustainable strategies and solutions to design and retrofit buildings to be comfortable living environments that reduce energy and resource consumption is crucial in achieving the sustainable ...
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Which competencies should be fostered in education for sustainable development at higher education institutions? Findings from the evaluation of the study programs at the University of Bern, Switzerland
- University of Bern
A relatively broad consolidated consensus has emerged among experts regarding the competencies that should be fostered through an education for sustainable development at the higher education level. However, there is ...
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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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Evaluating the successes and challenges toward achieving the Real Food Commitment at Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- SAGE Fund
With their significant purchasing power, institutions of higher education can create substantial changes in the food system through their food purchases. The Real Food Challenge launched a national campaign ...
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Alignment among environmental programs in higher education: What Food-Energy-Water Nexus concepts are covered in introductory courses?
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- Rider University (NJ)
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Northern Colorado (CO)
- Whitman College (WA)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of ...
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Benchmarking Sustainable Mobility in Higher Education
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
- Università di Foggia
Sustainable mobility is an increasingly significant issue that both public and private organizations consider in order to reduce emissions by their members. In this paper, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ...
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