International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 23 Issue 5

University students involved in a sustainable world: assessing sustainable consumption in Spain

Clara Margaça, Brizeida Hernández Sánchez, José Carlos Sánchez-García

To achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on sustainable and responsible…

The usual discourse of sustainable development and its impact on students of economics: a case from Czech higher education context

Roman Buchtele, Miloslav Lapka

In recent decades, the concepts of sustainable development (SD) and sustainability have become a part of the everyday information flow. Is there real impact on students who have…

Greening of the syllabus in faculties of education sciences through sustainable development goals: the case of public Andalusian universities (Spain)

Fátima Poza-Vilches, Esther García-González, Carmen Solís-Espallargas, Leticia C. Velasco-Martínez, Abigail López-Alcarria, Ligia Isabel Estrada-Vidal, Rocío Jiménez-Fontana, Fátima Rodríguez-Marín, María Puig-Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Tójar Hurtado, José Gutiérrez-Pérez

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the presence of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed by the UN (2015) in university degrees within the fields of education…

The role of online social networks in university students’ environmentally responsible behavior

Amirreza Rezaei, Saba Ahmadi, Hamid Karimi

This study aims to determine the effect of online social networks on university students’ environmentally responsible behavior (ERB). This research aimed to develop and test a…

Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the students’ pro-environmental behavior: a case-study in a Portuguese HEI

Elisabete Correia, Sara Sousa, Clara Viseu, Joana Leite

Through the application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study aims to explore the main determinants of higher education students’ pro-environmental behavior.

Teamwork makes the net-work: participant-governed networks and athletics sustainability collaboration

Martin Barrett, Gareth J. Jones, Kyle S. Bunds, Jonathan M. Casper, Michael B. Edwards

Athletic departments play an important role in sustainability-based collaborative processes due to their boundary spanning connections with both internal and external university…

Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space

Kostas Stavrianakis, William Ramos

This study aims to examine the organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment among US-based faculty members, in social sciences, natural sciences, the humanities and…

Training of communities of sustainability practice through science and art

Lorena del Carmen Alvarez-Castañon, Maricruz Romero-Ugalde

This paper aims to analyse the university experience of a social laboratory that mixes science and art to instruct communities of sustainability practice in heterogeneous contexts…

Developing key competencies in sustainability through project-based learning in graduate sustainability programs

Jodie Birdman, Arnim Wiek, Daniel J. Lang

This research aims to investigate the role of project-based-learning within graduate sustainability curricula through the lens of key competence development. Project-based…

Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme

Ki-Hoon Lee, Rob Hales

This paper aims to explore Master of Business Administration (MBA) students’ “reflections” and/or “reflection on practice” of sustainability into responsible management education…

Framing and facilitating complex problem-solving competences in interdisciplinary megaprojects: an institutional strategy to educate for sustainable development

Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Maiken Winther, Henrik Worm Routhe, Anette Kolmos

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been suggested as an approach to education for sustainable development (ESD); however, the integration of interdisciplinarity is continuously…

Analysis of sustainability insertion in materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes

Jeniffer Fonseca Zanitt, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas, Milena Pavan Serafim, Walter Leal Filho, Rosley Anholon

This study aims to analyse how the materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes can be better aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals…