Campus sustainability in the US: Environmental management and social change since 1970

Washington-Ottombre, Camille; Washington, Garrett L.; Newman, Julie

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.012

Cited by 44 publications

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“…Despite the fund constraints, the students of the Department of Geography at the McGill University have been successfully conducting sustainability interdisciplinary research symposium, a twoday event with the objective of bringing researchers and experts from varied disciplines to discuss and deliberate on sustainability issues (Dallaire et al, 2018). Washington-Ottombre et al (2018) emphasized that HEIs should engage with the stakeholders in extending sustainable initiatives. Mulder et al (2012) iterated the coevolution of top-down and bottomup initiatives for the effective implementation of sustainability programs.…”

Section: Sustainable Campus Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review

Menon

Suresh

2020

IJSHE

128

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Purpose The UN proclamation of 2005–2014 as the decade of education for sustainable development has been instrumental in creating awareness and driving higher education institutions (HEIs) in integrating sustainability into their system. The purpose of this paper is to explore and encapsulate practices adopted by universities and colleges across the globe in integrating sustainability in education (here refers to curriculum and pedagogy), research, campus operations and outreach programs. Design/methodology/approach The review analyzed 229 peer-reviewed research studies in the time period 2005–2018 selected from 44 journals. The literature review was done in phases. The first phase was the selection of the database, the second phase was refining the database by eliminating irrelevant studies and the last phase was distributing selected studies on the basis of the journal, year and country of publication, research paradigm, sustainability integration in higher education, teaching techniques adopted by HEIs and research focus in publications. Findings This study contributes to the literature review of sustainability in higher education. From the literature review, it is evident that sustainability has made inroads into HEIs, but only a few universities have been successful in implementing it holistically, integrating all the triple bottom line dimensions in balance. Practical implications The study has practical implications for HEIs planning to integrate sustainability into teaching and learning and other aspects of educational practices. The findings and the examples of successful implementation of sustainable education by institutions around the world would help universities and colleges in formulating policies, strategies and practices that would promote sustainability on campuses. Originality/value The literature reviews on sustainability in higher education so far have focused either on curricula, pedagogical approaches, assessment and reporting or barriers and solutions. This study attempts to offer a comprehensive view of the initiatives adopted by the institutions in incorporating sustainability in education, research, campus operations and outreach programs.

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Section: Sustainable Campus Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review

Menon

Suresh

2020

IJSHE

128

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“…It is clearly mentioned on international platforms that water scarcity will be one of the major problems of the coming centuries in every region of the world on a global scale, and therefore the lives of billions of people depend on the rational and correct management of water. Today, supplying of water is becoming a major problem due to some reasons such as the rapid increase of the population, increasing water needs in all areas, unconscious consumption, and the pollution of clean water sources (Amaral et al, 2020;Washington-Ottombre et al, 2018). Therefore, instead of being a pollutant, domestic wastewater has become a source of water that can be used by reevaluating.…”

Section: Water Management and Savingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Smart Campuses in the Context of Boyd Cohen Wheel and Sustainable Environmental Dimension

Çelebi

Bahadır

Şimşek

et al. 2020

Mühendislik Bilimleri Ve Tasarım Dergisi

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The global climate change and the elements of the increasing consumption have led to the risk of emerging environmental deformation in cities. In light of these parameters, it is the matter that campuses, which are a core component of cities, are also affected. Today, universities prefer to use the Boyd Cohen Wheel to develop their campuses in terms of the sustainable environment as in cities. Because campuses are small-scale cities in terms of many ways, studies to be conducted in these areas can set a model for smart cities as well. There are also several approaches in literature and practice related to the process of conversion to smart campuses. This study aims to examine the idea of 'smart campus' and its relationship with 'smart city' by focusing on examples from Aksaray University. In this context, approaches to a sustainable environment in university campuses are discussed.

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“…The quality of the surrounding environment of buildings is as crucial as the buildings themselves, particularly during campus design. If the outdoor environment can appropriately serve as a leisure space, it can play a pivotal role in prompting a relaxed mood and harmonizing teacher and student lives [27][28][29]. When evaluating the environmental needs of a campus, the outdoor environment must also be incorporated and considered.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using the Fuzzy Delphi Method to Study the Construction Needs of an Elementary Campus and Achieve Sustainability

Wang

Huang

2019

Sustainability

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One of the crucial concerns for achieving a campus’s sustainable development is that the school buildings should meet the needs of students and teachers. The design of school buildings should not only facilitate teaching activities but also provide a teaching environment that stimulates or encourages autonomous learning in students. School buildings are the site of classroom instruction and also serve as a teaching tool that helps in achieving educational objectives and providing compulsory education. They must consider modern ideas before construction, since education is constantly reformed and updated using new policies. Elementary school teachers and students are the most frequent users of school buildings, and their needs must be prioritized vis-à-vis elementary school building construction. We invited a total of 29 scholars, experts, and school managers to help create questionnaires to assess user level of need for each item of school building design, employing the fuzzy Delphi method. Questionnaires were divided into four major dimensions, namely campus buildings, campus environment, athletic fields, and auxiliary facilities, and the dimensions were composed of 33 items. The targets of the survey were teachers and students at a school located in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The results suggest that teachers and students both most highly value improved athletic fields; in particular, an indoor stadium was the most highly desired construction project. For safety reasons, replacing school walls with dwarf hedges was the least desirable item among teachers and students. Our objective was to provide a school building design reference for school administrative authorities and architects.

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Campus sustainability in the US: Environmental management and social change since 1970

Cited by 44 publications

References 38 publications

Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review

Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review

The Importance of Smart Campuses in the Context of Boyd Cohen Wheel and Sustainable Environmental Dimension

Using the Fuzzy Delphi Method to Study the Construction Needs of an Elementary Campus and Achieve Sustainability

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