International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 21 Issue 5

Sustainability at a Brazilian university: developing environmentally sustainable practices and a life cycle assessment case study

Murillo Vetroni Barros, Fabio Neves Puglieri, Daniel Poletto Tesser, Oksana Kuczynski, Cassiano Moro Piekarski

Some universities have a commitment to both academic education and sustainable development, and the sustainable development goals can support several sustainable actions that…

Student food insecurity and the social equity pillar of campus sustainability

Stacey Swearingen White

College and university campuses serve as a vital test bed for sustainability solutions of various types. To date, though, campus sustainability efforts have focused more on the…

Curriculum integration of sustainability in engineering education – a national study of programme director perspectives

Ola Leifler, Jon-Erik Dahlin

This study aims to report on how programme directors address sustainability within engineering education at Swedish universities and engineering colleges.

Place-based inquiry in a university course abroad: lessons about education for sustainability in the urban outdoors

Timothy G. Thomas

This paper aims to present the case of a semester-long study-abroad education class in Italy. This course explored place-based methods that classroom teachers (K-12) might use to…

Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable development of higher education institutions: an intellectual capital approach

Eugénia de Matos Pedro, João Leitão, Helena Alves

This study aims to identify stakeholders’ perceptions of the effects associated with different components of intellectual capital (IC) on the sustainable development (SD…

Action learning partnerships: carbon, commerce and community co-learning at a Canadian university

Annie Booth, Sinead Earley, Kyle Aben, Barbara Otter, Todd Corrigal, Christie Ray

The purpose of this paper is to discuss an innovative course offered as a partnership between the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) (Canada), the Prince George…

SDG 4 in higher education: challenges and opportunities

Therese Ferguson, Carmel Geneva Roofe

The purpose of this case study is to focus on the role of higher education in the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, discussing both challenges and…

Educating for transitions: ecovillages as transdisciplinary sustainability “classrooms”

Rebeca Roysen, Tânia Cristina Cruz

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pedagogical tools that can enhance transdisciplinarity in higher education and stimulate sustainability transitions, based on the case…

Transformative learning in the field of sustainability: a systematic literature review (1999-2019)

Jorge Gustavo Rodríguez Aboytes, Matthias Barth

This study aims to investigate how transformative learning has been conceptualised and operationalised in education for sustainable development (ESD) and sustainability learning…

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

Shalini Menon, M. Suresh

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…