Advancing Higher Education for Sustainable Development: international insights and critical reflections

Lozano, Rodrigo; Lozano, Francisco J.; Mulder, Karel; Huisingh, Donald; Waas, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.034

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“…Despite the high expectations placed on institutions of higher education, however, recent research shows that education and research on sustainability in universities is still in its infancy [35,36] and the roles of academia in promoting regional sustainability are limited [37]. Barriers include the lack of understanding of the concept of SD, low awareness, unclear vision and objectives, and the lack of commitment [38].…”

Section: Universities' Roles In Education For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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A University-Hosted Program in Pursuit of Coastal Sustainability: The Case of Tokyo Bay

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This study presents a unique way by which a university program can contribute to capacity development for coastal sustainability. The program is steered by a working group of volunteer faculty members, having different academic backgrounds, in collaboration with students and marine professionals, including fisherfolk and environment education interpreters. Although the program began with conventional educational ideas and style, its practical framework evolved to include interactive activities with collaborators in the community, all of which were geared toward social learning. The combination of service learning and participatory action research (PAR) was proven to be an adequate approach to link higher education for sustainable development (HESD) and university-community partnerships and to promote learning for coastal sustainability. Challenges identified include (1) ensuring continuity of learning and (2) reducing the heavy workload of faculty members involved in program preparation and coordination. The authors would like to emphasize the possibilities offered by the engagement of scholarship in the capacity development for coastal sustainability by focusing on community-based efforts.

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Section: Universities' Roles In Education For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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A University-Hosted Program in Pursuit of Coastal Sustainability: The Case of Tokyo Bay

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“…Thus, through charters and declarations as well as pressure from university stakeholders, universities are beginning to gauge their contributions towards achieving sustainability within and outside their campuses [14,15]. This is because universities play a key role in urban sustainability that include: (a) reducing the negative environmental impact of campus operations and collaborate with public and private sectors, organizations and communities to deploy and implement sustainable practices [16]; (b) producing knowledge and innovation technologies required to contribute in finding solutions to global environmental problems [17]; and (c) preparing future leaders, managers of companies and organizations, and entrepreneurs of new businesses, with competencies required to create a more sustainable communities [2,18,19].…”

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The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment

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Sustainability indicators and assessments are vital in promoting campus sustainability. Despite the plethora of indicator frameworks, campus sustainability assessment in developing countries encounters many challenges including lack of, or restricted access to, data and difficulties in measuring indicators. There is also a limited application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in campus environmental sustainability assessment, although campus operations have spatial dimensions. This article proposes a GIS-based model for environmental sustainability assessment of campus operations and demonstrates its usefulness using King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. The model applies spatial analysis techniques, including inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation, to statistically assess the various campus operational activities by using land use data to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, water consumption, solid waste, and transportation. The integration of spatial dimension in the model facilitates the collection and measurement of spatially related indicators, helps identify hotspots of campus operations, and provides better visualization of the existing condition and future scenario of campus environmental sustainability status. This model can assist decision-makers to construct strategies for improving the overall environmental sustainability of university campuses. The paper concludes by highlighting how the model can address some challenges of campus sustainability assessment in developing countries.

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“…Moreover, there is a consensus on the importance of the curricula, research, outreach programs, interdisciplinarity, operations, and collaboration between universities that are established as key areas (Evans, 2015;Lozano et al, 2013).…”

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Educating for Sustainability: Perspectives and Critical Notes on Accounting Scholars’ Role in Higher Education

Baldo¹,

Baldarelli²

2017

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business

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Education for sustainable development represents a relevant issue that allows Universities to lead and respond to social needs towards a more sustainable life and a complete change in the global paradigm of education and involvement of society. A crucial point for developing a culturally sensitive vision is to deepen the scholars' genuine commitment to sustainability. A pillar of sustainability education should rest on authenticity, intended as coherence between the scholars' research and teaching arguments relative to sustainability and the concrete behaviors held in their professional and personal spheres of life. Starting from this premise, the papers aims to inquire if there is a decoupling between the concepts scholars contribute to promote within the sustainability discourse and the real practice of sustainability in their personal and professional experience. "Is there a missing link between what scholars teach and study, thereby contributing to sustainability research and their daily choices and style of life?" After having presented the research design and the methodological approach adopted to empirically investigate the phenomenon the attention has been focused on the social and environmental accounting research literature, where some contributions claim for the presence of "blue meanies" that invade the world of scholarship, reflection, collegiality and hinder the development of challenges toward sustainability. The preliminary results of the explorative study suggest that a lot of tension related to education for sustainability improve the transfer of sustainable values and attitudes within the scientific community and the students, while several factors hinder sustainable behaviors in the daily professional and personal life of scholars, thus undermining relationships which are a pillar of sustainability.

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Advancing Higher Education for Sustainable Development: international insights and critical reflections

Cited by 330 publications

References 19 publications

A University-Hosted Program in Pursuit of Coastal Sustainability: The Case of Tokyo Bay

A University-Hosted Program in Pursuit of Coastal Sustainability: The Case of Tokyo Bay

The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment

Educating for Sustainability: Perspectives and Critical Notes on Accounting Scholars’ Role in Higher Education

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