Dissemination of Sustainable Development on Universities Websites‘

Katiliūtė, Eglė; Daunorienė, Asta

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.337

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“…Often environmental information does not appear on the university homepage (Hart et al , 2015) and the level of website environmental release is very low. This seems to be the case in most countries, such as Egypt (Ismail, 2019), Germany (Azizi et al , 2018), Ghana (Hinson et al , 2015), Italy (Siboni et al , 2013), Lithuania (Katiliūtẻ et al , 2014; Katiliūtẻ and Daunorienẻ, 2015) and Malaysia (Hasim et al , 2011; Joseph et al , 2013), among others. There are, however, some exceptions.…”

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Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Fernández-Vázquez¹

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the current state of website environmental communications in Latin American universities through a benchmarking operational tool. The study considers how these universities communicate their environmental policies as an act of corporate social responsibility and to improve their public image. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 80 top-ranked Latin American universities was considered. Environmental websites were evaluated in terms of information quality, multimodal design and stakeholder engagement. The research method follows the theoretical foundations of critical discourse analysis, multimodal studies and ecolinguistics. Findings A total of 59% of the universities have opened environmental websites. However, many of them have poor content and interactivity. Latin American universities obtain low scores in several objective criteria which measure the efficiency of website environmental communications. Practical implications The findings can help university administrators to improve the quality and effectiveness of online environmental communications. Some practical recommendations are given and examples of good practice can be emulated. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study that analyses the situation of website environmental communications in a large sample of Latin American universities. The development of an operational benchmarking tool invites further comparative studies, which may contribute to a wider picture of environmental communications.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 98%

Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Fernández-Vázquez¹

2021

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“…From a country perspective, these types of studies have concentrated on, for instance, institutions from Spain (Lozano, 2011;Berzosa et al, 2017;Ferrero-Ferrero et al, 2018;Zorio-Grima et al, 2018;Brusca et al, 2018), Germany and Austria (Lopatta and Jaeschke, 2014), Germany and Australia (Schaffhauser-Linzatti and Ossmann, 2018), Belgium (Ceulemans et al, 2018), Ghana (Hinson et al, 2015), Canada (Fonseca et al, 2011), New Zealand (An et al, 2017), United Kingdom (Townsend and Barrett, 2015;Bullock and Wilder, 2016), Australia (Gamage and Sciulli, 2017), North America (Sepasi et al, 2018), South America (Velasco et al, 2018), Portugal (Madeira et al, 2011), Scotland (de Aguiar and Paterson, 2017) and Lithuania (Katiliute and Daunoriene, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability disclosure in higher education

Son-Turan

Lambrechts

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the extent and content of the sustainability disclosure of public and foundation (private but not-for-profit) universities in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach Subsequent to a systematic literature review of six academic databases and the National Thesis Center, a content analysis using a combination of Global Reporting Initiative and campus assessment tools from previous studies is conducted on stand-alone sustainability reports and websites of a purposive sample of eight universities in Turkey. Findings Infrequent and unsystematic sustainability practice done through websites seems to be more prevalent than formal reporting through international initiatives. Research and practice diverge by focusing on different sustainability indicators. Sustainability needs to be integrated into teaching and curriculum through university policies and regulations. Foundation universities show greater effort in sustainability reporting than public universities. Research limitations/implications The research is limited by the availability of mostly self-reported, dispersed and unaudited data by foundation universities in addition to framework-imposed specificities. Furthermore, there is only one public university with a formal sustainability report in the sample. Practical implications The findings offer suggestions for developing extra sustainability indicators and may assist local policy-makers and researchers in their efforts to improve sustainability reporting by local universities. Originality/value This comprehensive research effort is one of the few studies from a non-Western country perspective and the only study on Turkey in relation to universities and sustainability reporting.

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“…They analyze various groups that could affect an organization and could be affected by an organization. Adopting stakeholder relations management theories to the environmental dimension of sustainable development means to rethink the nature of universities' environmental impacts and the managerial tools adopted by them [38]. The model presented in this paper refers to changes that may be necessary in the universities to introduce quality culture leading to SD, therefore the theory of change is also applicable for the considerations.…”

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A Conceptual Model Proposal: Universities as Culture Change Agents for Sustainable Development

2020

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This paper aims to propose a conceptual model that synthesizes the existing findings concerning universities as culture change agents for sustainable development. The model could serve as a guidance on how universities might get involved in the pro-SD activities. It also underlines the prerequisite of the quality culture that should be introduced within all the activities of universities to successfully act as culture change agents for SD. This paper builds upon the holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to demonstrate that SD does not happen in isolation and that the role of universities in its creation is significant. This study includes a literature review to contextualize the impact of universities on culture and their potential role in SD. The conclusions stemming from the literature review materialize in the proposal of the conceptual model of the university as the culture change agent for SD. The elaborated framework responds to the need for greater clarity, ordering and systematization of the role of universities in the processes of initiating, promoting and modelling the SD-oriented changes while appreciating the role of culture as an enabler, means of social change and a result of SD-focused interventions. The paper contributes to the body of knowledge by offering a novel perspective on the assumed interrelations between university, its quality culture, university main operations such as education, research and engagement with the society as well as the culture and the agency of stakeholders in the context of meeting the world’s current demands without compromising the needs of future generations.

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Dissemination of Sustainable Development on Universities Websites‘

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Sustainability disclosure in higher education

A Conceptual Model Proposal: Universities as Culture Change Agents for Sustainable Development

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