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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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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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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How to increase students' motivation to engage in university initiatives towards environmental sustainability
- Universitat de València
- Universidad Tecnica del Norte
Nowadays, it is of vital importance to make students aware of the problems that can be generated by the deterioration of the environment. The purpose of this study is to …
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Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate
- Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
The aim of this article is to present a case study in the field of ESD for in-service teachers training conducted in a Swiss primary school. A Discursive Community of …
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Gamification to Improve Participation in an Environmental Science Course: An Educator’s Reflection
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Reticence prevalent among East Asian students has prompted educators to attempt different methods to engage them. Gamification of courses has gained popularity as an avenue to encourage students’ participation, and …
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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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Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences
- Hanze University of Applied Sciences
- Universiteit voor Humanistiek
Universities worldwide are beginning to counter the prevailing neo-liberal ideology by paying renewed attention to the moral development of students and fostering their life purposes. This mixed methods study investigates …
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The importance of the Sustainable Development Goals to students of environmental and sustainability studies—a global survey in 41 countries
- Goethe University Frankfurt
To fight the global problems of humanity, the United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve these goals, it is necessary that future decision-makers and stakeholders in …
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Sustainability Initiatives for Management Education: A Roadmap for Institutional Integration
- University of San Francisco (CA)
- Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation (DC)
- Sustainable Capacity International Institute
What are the best ways to integrate sustainability concepts into higher education institutions and management education? Sustainability, global responsibility, and social innovations are increasingly accepted worldwide as part of a …
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An overview of the engagement of higher education institutions in the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals
- University of São Paulo
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Higher education institutions provide valuable inputs toward implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, it is unclear how this engagement is taking place across the world. This study addresses …
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The role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in educating future leaders with social impact contributing to the sustainable development goals
- University of Derby
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how higher education institutions (HEIs) educate future leaders with social impact contributing to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). HEIs have an …
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How university students assess the planetary boundaries: A global empirical study
- Technical University of Dortmund
- Goethe University Frankfurt
In order to effectively address global environmental problems, it is important that future decision-makers in society are aware of the safe operation space for humans, which is limited by the …
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Perceptions and concerns about sustainable healthcare of nursing students trained in sustainability and health: A cohort study
- University of Jaén
Aim: To describe nursing students' perceptions of sustainable health education in the nursing curriculum and their concerns about sustainable healthcare and the impact of climate change on nursing. Background: Sustainable …
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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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Key insights from climate communication – and how they can inspire sustainability in higher education
- Hochschule Konstanz für Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung
Purpose: To combat climate change and safeguard a liveable future, humanity needs fundamental and rapid social change. The purpose of this paper is to show, why and how climate communication …
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CUB Plastic Shipping Bag Recycling Program
- Gettysburg College (PA)
We implemented a plastic shipping bag recycling program at Gettysburg College. Recycling bags contribute towards contamination within the college's single-stream recycling or end up directly in the landfill via traditional …
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The Interdisciplinary Responsible Management Competence Framework: An Integrative Review of Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability Competences
- Western University (ON)
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
- University of Manchester (Lancashire)
At the centre of responsible management (RM) learning is the development of managerial competence for ethics, responsibility, and sustainability (ERS). Important contributions have been made from each: the ethics, responsibility, …
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Physical education teacher educators’ subjective theories about sustainability and education for sustainable development
- University of Vechta
- University of Augsburg (Schwaben)
Purpose: Physical education (PE) and PE teacher education have great potential to target goals that are important from an education for sustainable development (ESD) perspective. However, ESD has not been …
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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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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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Empowering Future Leaders to Advocate Sustainable Action: A comparative analysis between two university programmes focusing on leadership and sustainability in Sweden and Germany
- Malmö University
Sustainability must be integrated into our everyday world. To achieve that, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established. Some scholars agree that the SDGs are not enough. So, a new strategy …
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Governance in the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals in higher education: global trends
- Winona State University (MN)
- Universidade Federal de Vicosa
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Eastern)
- Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Governance is a key component for implementing sustainable development (SD) initiatives in university teaching, research, and projects. This line of thinking also applies to implementing the United Nations (UN) sustainable …
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Footprints in Action: How UVA Is Managing Its Sustainability Stewardship
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
Evaluating sustainability stewardship at higher educational institutions is essential to working towards improving our environment. Many institutions have used environmental footprint indicators as a way to evaluate, track, and improve …
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Connection to nature of university students in the environmental field — An empirical study in 41 countries
- Goethe University Frankfurt
People's personal relationships with nature are seen as essential factors influencing environmental behavior. Although human-nature relationships have been a recurring research topic in a wide range of disciplines, there has …
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Social Capital, Indigenous Storytelling, and Fish Diversity: Learning Together Through Community-university Partnerships in Downeast Maine
- University of Maine (ME)
Not only can community-university partnerships be vehicles for mobilizing community resources and affecting change, they also have high potential to produce useful, nuanced research and enable renewed visions of trust. …
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Perspective Transformation Regarding Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
This study examined transformative sustainability learning (TSL) by determining the occurrence of perspective transformation (PT) regarding sustainability in sustainability-focused courses offered at a public university. 131 students in two upper-division …
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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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The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation
- University at Albany (NY)
- Johnson & Wales University, Providence (RI)
As has become abundantly clear to the social scientists, agriculturalists, policymakers, and food justice advocates who have taken up the fight, progress toward more resilient, fair, and effective food systems …
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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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Examining undergraduate students’ systems thinking competency through a problem scenario in the context of climate change education
- National Sun Yat-sen University
Higher education plays an important role in preparing future citizens and leaders with the capacity to address systemic issues behind complex problems such as climate change. There have however been …
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Sustainability training at Spanish public faculties of education: a virtual ethnography
- Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias)
- University of Malaga (Malaga)
Various institutional statements and official documents refer to the Sustainable Development Goals and sustainability training. This should imply a university education in these values, considering that those who are going …
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An assessment of key sustainability competencies: a review of scales and propositions for validation
- Umeå University
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and provide propositions about survey assessment tools of the key sustainability competencies (KSCs) of education for sustainability. UNESCO points out how …
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Participatory budgeting for public involvement in environmental sustainability at a Thai university
- King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Participatory democracy where the public influences and feels involved in policy making is an ideal in democratic societies. In this paper, principles of participatory democracy are implemented at a Thai …
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At the moment of disposal: how messaging techniques at university public outdoor waste receptacles can improve the solid waste stream
- University of Florida (FL)
Purpose: This study aims to test how waste disposal behaviors can be changed such as higher recycling diversion and lower contamination rates using signage and messaging techniques at public outdoor …
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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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The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review
- Universidad de Sevilla
Currently, in the field of Sustainable Development (SD), one of the most significant debates is the necessary incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education and, specifically, in higher …
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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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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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Students as co-researchers: Using participatory action research to address college food insecurity
- University of San Francisco (CA)
Studies indicate that college students experience high rates of food insecurity. Growing awareness of food insecurity on college campuses has resulted in efforts by many institutions to address the problem …
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Sustainability courses in hospitality and tourism higher education: Perspectives from industry practitioners and students
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
In hospitality and tourism (H&T) context, interaction between stakeholders is vital to cultivate the learning sustainability. This study investigates the perceptions of sustainable issues among stakeholders (industry practitioners and students) …
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Understanding urban sustainability from Mode 2 Science and transdisciplinary education: how Master Thesis Ateliers of the Ghent Stadsacademie tackle wicked issues
- Ghent University
The wicked sustainability problems that we are increasingly facing not only require new ways of knowledge production, but also challenge our traditional educational system. More and more importance is attached …
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Grappling with Climate Change and the Internationalization of the Higher Education: An Eco-Socialist Perspective
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Universities worldwide have come to embrace the rhetoric of environmental sustainability and a commitment to climate action while simultaneously seeking to internationalize themselves within the context of the global economy. …
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Is the grass always greener? Access to campus green spaces can boost students’ sense of belonging
- University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)
Purpose: An important facet of student’s sense of belonging is students’ relationships with, and time spent in, the university campus. The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion …
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Understanding Environmental Justice Instruction in Higher Education: Activist Epistemic Orientations and a Continuum of Community Engaged Curricular and Pedagogical Practice
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
Starting in the early 1980’s, the environmental justice (EJ) movement was critical in drawing much needed attention to how communities of color, low-income groups, Indigenous peoples, and other marginalized groups …
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Agents for sustainable futures? The (unfulfilled) promise of sustainability at leading business schools
- Budapest Business University
- Eötvös Loránd University
Present and future business leaders might be amongst the most important actors in initiating and managing a transition towards a sustainable economy and society in general. Preparing them for such …
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The intellectual structure of the literature on sustainability leadership in higher education: an author co-citation analysis
- Mahidol University (Bangkok)
This review aims to identify the intellectual structure or key theoretical themes that comprise the emerging field of sustainability leadership in higher education. The Scopus index was used to identify …
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A Place-Based Sustainability Approach to Learning about Photovoltaic Solar Energy
- University of San Diego (CA)
An ethical and effective engineering practice is inherently place-responsive and designs for a sustainable future. Engineering students must therefore be educated within a sustainable and sociotechnical paradigm. In the spring …
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Informative initiatives as a useful tool to raise awareness of food waste. An application to higher education
- University of Zaragoza
Purpose: Because food waste is a serious problem today, society is currently aiming for more responsible consumption to minimize it, as defined in the 12th goal of the United Nations …
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Experiential Learning for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
- Aston University
This work is about sustainability-related learning experiences for the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) in Higher Education. It arises from the need to motivate students with relevant and interesting …
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Inclusion and social justice in sustainable higher education: An integrated perspective through the lens of public engagement
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università di Roma LUMSA
- Università degli Studi del Sannio
The objective of this paper is to investigate the commitment of universities in terms of inclusion and social justice in the light of the opportunities offered by university public engagement …
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