International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 20 Issue 4

Global research landscape of sustainability curricula implementation in higher education

Marie Weiss, Matthias Barth

This paper aims to outline the global research landscape of sustainability curricula implementation processes in higher education. The focus is twofold and investigates where…

Assessing the sustainability content of the Nigerian engineering curriculum

Usman Umar Akeel, Sarah Jayne Bell, John E. Mitchell

The purpose of this study is to present an assessment of the sustainability content of the Nigerian engineering curriculum in universities.

Engineering education and the development of competencies for sustainability

Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas, Gilson Brito Alves Lima, Nicholas Van-Erven Ludolf, Marcelo Jasmim Meiriño, Chrystyane Abreu, Rosley Anholon, Julio Vieira Neto, Leandro Silva Goulart Rodrigues

This paper aims to deal with the skills for sustainable development in engineering courses. The main objective is to identify which competences should be developed in these…

Becoming a competent teacher in education for sustainable development: Learning outcomes and processes in teacher education

Jan-Ole Brandt, Lina Bürgener, Matthias Barth, Aaron Redman

This paper aims to provide a holistic approach to assessing student teachers’ competence development in education for sustainable development (ESD). This is to provide evidence on…

Bottled water versus tap water: Risk perceptions and drinking water choices at the University of South Florida

Ryan Christopher Graydon, Paola Andrea Gonzalez, Abdiel Elias Laureano-Rosario, Guillermo Reginald Pradieu

Bottled water consumption continues to break records worldwide and its environmental impact is often underestimated by the consumer. Many factors affect individuals’ choices to…

Ecological footprint: a tool for environmental management in educational institutions

Katherine Ortegon, Pilar Acosta

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, as few universities have assessed their ecological footprint (EF), a benchmark for Colombian universities is presented. Second, a…

Community capacity-building for sustainable development: Effectively striving towards achieving local community sustainability targets

Isabel B. Franco, James Tracey

Although the value of community capacity building is widely accepted within scholarly literature, these initiatives thus far appear to have achieved very little impact in the…

Student perceptions and trust of sustainability information

Rachel Hay, Lynne Eagle, Muhammad Abid Saleem, Lisa Vandommele, Siqiwen Li

The purpose of this paper is to report student attitudes and beliefs towards climate change adaptation and sustainability-related behaviours.

A cohort study of sustainability education in nursing

Janet Richardson, Daniel Clarke, Jane Grose, Paul Warwick

The purpose of this paper is to assess the contribution of scenario-based learning aimed at raising awareness of sustainability in health-care practitioners. The Lancet Countdown…

Do pro-social students care more for the environment?

Haimanti Bhattacharya

This study aims to use pro-social and pro-environment attitudes as indicators of social and environmental sustainability to empirically examine the relationship between the two…

Sustainable chemistry teaching at the pre-university level: Barriers and opportunities for university educators

Suganty Kanapathy, Khai Ern Lee, Mazlin Mokhtar, Sharifah Zarina Syed Zakaria, Subarna Sivapalan, Azizah Mohd Zahidi

This paper aims to discuss the knowledge levels, attitudes and behaviours regarding the concept of sustainable development among pre-university programme educators, as well as the…