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Supporting the role of universities in leading individual and societal transformation through education for sustainable development
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
- Quality Assurance Agency For Higher Education (--None--)
- University of the West of England, Bristol
- Advance HE
- Cardiff Metropolitan University
- University of Bristol
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 ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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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 ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Energy use and CO2 emissions in the UK universities: An extended Kaya identity analysis
- Florida International University (FL)
- Australian National University
- Kingston University London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
We investigate the progress of the UK universities in greening their energy sources in line with the UK's goal of becoming a net-zero economy by 2050. Using the HESA ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Reducing energy demand in China and the United Kingdom: The importance of energy literacy
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
- Zhejiang University
- Plymouth Marjon University
As the impacts of climate change become increasingly visible across the globe, awareness of the need for cleaner energy and demand reduction is growing. Energy literacy offers a strong potential ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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The carbon footprint of a UK University during the COVID-19 lockdown
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to compare the carbon intensity of higher education delivered on- and off-campus. This is attributed to governmental lockdown orders that have forced ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Determinants of Carbon Emission Disclosures and UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of UK Higher Education Institutions
- Tallinn University
- Newcastle University
- Durham University
In recent years, organisational sustainability has become a topical issue in many institutional fields and a number of calls have been made to improve the disclosure of carbon information as ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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‘Whole Earth?’ Using an Exhibition to Raise Sustainability Awareness at a UK University
- Canterbury Christ Church University
Despite mounting evidence of global environmental stress, many educationalists appear to be discounting warnings of ecological collapse from scientists, futurists and community leaders. One way of promoting sustainability awareness may ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Characteristics of UK higher education institutions that disclose sustainability reports
- University of Hamburg
This study aims to focus on the following research question: Which institutional characteristics are associated with sustainability reporting by UK higher education institutions?
To answer the aforementioned research question, this ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Business School Legitimacy and the Challenge of Sustainability: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Institutional Decoupling
Business schools face growing institutional pressure to respond to the sustainability agenda, especially since the financial crisis highlighted the need to educate business leaders who engage with issues beyond a ...
- Posted April 24, 2017
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Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK
- University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)
This paper draws on a series of five ESRC-funded seminars held between 2006 and 2008 on 'Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK'. We sketch the background ...
- Posted March 1, 2017
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Strategy Textbooks and the Environment Construct: Are the Texts Enabling Strategists to Realize Sustainable Outcomes?
- Griffith University (Queensland)
A central claim within the sustainable development literature is that realizing sustainable outcomes requires a move away from a conceptualization of the environment as a separate, bounded, independently given entity ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Review on integrating sustainability knowledge into architectural education: Practice in the UK and the USA
- University of Malaya
The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development steered by The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) since 2005 ended in 2014. It looked into the ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Sustainability, Learning and Capability: Exploring Questions of Balance
It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings tangible and useful outcomes in terms of understanding and skills, and also reinforces the ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 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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A comparative review of policy and practice for education for sustainable development/education for global citizenship (ESD/GC) in teacher education across the four nations of the UK
The early 21st century has seen a period of extreme turbulence in education at all levels in the UK. Although education policy was administrated on a territorial basis before 1999 ...
- Posted July 21, 2016
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