Monitoring environmental management at primary schools in South Africa

Greening healthcare: systematic implementation of environmental programmes in a university teaching hospital

“…The GCP is both an environmental education programme and award system based on the International Eco-Schools Programme. The Eco-Schools programme is based on ISO 14001 (Hens et al, 2010;Nan et al, 2006). In Ireland the programme is known as Green-Schools and coordinated by an environmental NGO.…”

Linkage analysis of sectoral CO2 emissions based on the hypothetical extraction method in South Africa

“…Studies on carbon emissions in South Africa have focused on the issues of carbon price and tax, environmental policies, carbon intensity, carbon emission at the sectoral and regional levels, new energy, bio-energy development, and innovation in institution (Brent and Visser, 2005;Chandler et al, 2002;Devarajan et al, 2009;Friedrich et al, 2009;Hens et al, 2010;Menyah and Wolde-Rufael, 2010;Von Blottnitz and Curran, 2007).…”

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“…Students and teachers examined both quantitative (saving water, waste prevention, and saving energy) and qualitative aspects (using environmental friendly detergents, sorting waste, and planting gardens). Also, collateral effects were involved, as sometimes products from the vegetable garden were sold to the local community (Hens et al, 2010). This is similar in construct to the project based learning methods found throughout the United States, particularly in public Charter schools.…”

“…While it appears that the onus for integrating outdoor learning into school curriculum is most often the responsibility of the teachers themselves, the institution of Environmental Management Systems (EMS's) in countries, such as Belgium and South Africa (Hens et al, 2010) demonstrates what may happen when this type of curriculum is mandatory and systemic. The focus of the EMS is to analyze, study, and change behavior towards the environment that is most proxy to the individual school.…”