International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 25 Issue 8

Investigating the role of green curriculum in shaping pro-environmental behaviors and environmental values orientation for sustainability

Likun Ni, Sayed Fayaz Ahmad, Ghadeer Alsanie, Na Lan, Muhammad Irshad, Rima H. Bin Saeed, Ahmad Bani Ahmad, Yasser Khan

This study aims to find out the role of green curriculum (GC) in making a green generation (GG) and ensuring sustainability. The study considers the green curriculum a key factor…

ESD action competencies of future teachers: self-perception and competence profile analysis

María Ángeles García-Fortes, Isabel Banos-González, Patricia Esteve-Guirao

This study aims to analyse the self-perception of future secondary school teachers (FTs) of biology about their education for sustainable development (ESD) competencies and…

A survey of the most prevalent sustainability initiatives at universities

Karin Farag, Can Baran Aktas

The purpose of this study is to identify the most prevalent initiatives undertaken by leading universities in sustainability and offer a roadmap for other institutions seeking to…

Exploring sustainability consciousness as a psychological construct with undergraduate students in the Republic of Korea

Sung-Sang Yoo, Gahyung Kim, Soo Jung La, YooJeo Sung

This paper explores how sustainability consciousness varies among undergraduate students at a higher education institution in the Republic of Korea. Based on the analyses of…

Campus sustainability, organizational learning and sustainability reporting: an empirical analysis

Camille Washington-Ottombre

Studies have shown that higher education institutions (HEIs) need to achieve deep organizational learning to develop and implement long-term strategies for responding to the…

The climate wins! – How a gamification approach can foster sustainable consumption on university campuses and beyond

Verena Berger, David Koch

Educational institutions have a special social responsibility to initiate processes of sustainability transformation in society, nevertheless, activities that effectively address…

Effect of sustainability measures on student satisfaction regarding accommodation services: practical study from the University of Northampton in the UK

Majida Jrad

This study aims to examine the relationship between sustainability initiatives and student satisfaction in accommodation services at the University of Northampton.

Raising pre-service English language teachers’ awareness of sustainable development goals through literary texts

Arda Arikan, Mehmet Galip Zorba

This study aims to examine the outcome of an online project to inform preservice English language teachers regarding the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Science-based targets for higher education? Evaluating alignment between Ivy+ climate action plans and the Science-Based Targets initiative’s net-zero standards

Leela Velautham, Jeremy Gregory, Julie Newman

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which a sample of US-based higher education institution’s (HEI’s) climate targets and associated climate action planning…

Influence mechanism of undergraduate students’ green innovation behavior: AMO perspective and multilevel empirical study

Jiaqi Liu, Haitao Wen, Rong Wen, Wenjue Zhang, Yun Cui, Heng Wang

To contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, this study aims to explore how to encourage innovative green behaviors among college students and the mechanisms…

ESD training for university teachers: which is more effective, the face-to-face or digital format? Results of an intervention study

Ingrid Hemmer, Christoph Koch, Anna Peitz

This paper aims to analyze the extent to which education for sustainable development (ESD) training enhances university teachers’ professional competence and whether it has the…

Sustainability teaching in higher education: assessing arts and design faculty perceptions and attitudes

Mihyun Kang, Katherine Cholakis-Kolysko, Negar Dehghan

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions and attitudes of arts and design faculty on teaching sustainability in higher education institutions in the USA.

Reinforcing infrastructure equity through leveraging Envision rating system within construction education

Rubaya Rahat, Claudia Calle Müller, Mohamed ElZomor

Construction education rarely addressed the importance of disseminating knowledge on infrastructure equity, thus impeding progress toward creating equitable and sustainable…

Unpacking place-based narratives: enhancing campus community participation in watershed conservation

Siti Norasiah Abd. Kadir, Sara MacBride-Stewart, Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad

The study aims to identify the evoked “sense of place” that the campus community attributes to a watershed area in a Malaysian higher institution, aiming to enhance their…

Sustainable community development through peer-to-peer learning in the online and in-person classroom

Joe Campbell, Kylienne Shaul, Kristina M. Slagle, David Sovic

Prior research suggests that collaboration is key to sustainable community development and environmental management, and peer-to-peer learning (P2PL) may facilitate community…

Design thinking for just transitions: exploring relational and justice-oriented learning at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Pablo Aránguiz Mesías, Guillermo Palau Salvador, Jordi Peris-Blanes

This paper aims to explore how young students experience the contribution of a pedagogical assemblage based on design thinking (DT) while contributing to the transition to a more…

Faculty development program about the food–energy–water nexus: supporting faculty’s adoption of a curricular module and program evaluation

Silvia-Jessica Mostacedo-Marasovic, Cory T. Forbes

A faculty development program (FDP) introduced postsecondary instructors to a module focused on the food–energy–water (FEW) nexus, a socio-hydrologic issue (SHI) and a…

The academic quality of universities and its contribution to the sustainable development goals

Laura Sierra-García, Nicolás Gambetta, Fernando Azcarate Llanes, María Antonia García Benau

This paper aims to examine whether the position of universities in the times higher education (THE) impact rankings (IR) is related to the different dimensions of academic quality…

Approaches to education for sustainability leadership development in higher education: an international comparative study in the Asia Pacific region

Majid Ghasemy, James A. Elwood, Geoffrey Scott

This study aims to focus on key approaches to education for sustainability (EfS) leadership development in the context of Malaysian and Japanese universities. The authors identify…

Exploring the factors shaping business students’ environmental concern

Barbara Borusiak, Bartlomiej Pieranski, Aleksandra Gaweł, David B López Lluch, Krisztián Kis, Sándor Nagy, Jozsef Gal, Anna Mravcová, Jana Gálová, Blazenka Knezevic, Pavel Kotyza, Lubos Smutka, Karel Malec

Increasing the need for education for sustainable development in universities requires an understanding of the predictors of students’ environmental concern (EC). In this paper…

Guidelines to promote sustainable transport in higher education universities: a bibliometric and systematic review

Letícia Oestreich, Álvaro Neuenfeldt Júnior, Alejandro Ruiz-Padillo

Unplanned urban mobility causes negative effects on the population and the environment. This study aims to understand how higher education institutions (HEIs) are managing the…

The possibility of a theory of change to tackle the climate crisis in a UK university

Ruth Bookbinder, Anna Mdee, Katy Roelich

This paper aims to discuss the practical dilemmas of institutional change to tackle the climate crisis in a UK university, identifying key assumptions and issues that block…

Climate lessons from the cold edge: rethinking the university as an ethical ecology

Simon Boxley

This largely conceptual study aims to draw from the author’s experience of conversations with Svalbard’s educators, lessons for international higher education institutions’…

Reporting of and policy on greenhouse gas emissions from air travel at Canadian universities

Derek Hall

This paper aims to explore the extent and characteristics of Canadian university reporting of and policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. It identifies current…

Current themes and future directions of the sustainable development goals in higher education

Fu-Ling Chung, Hsin-Hsuan Chung, Shu-Min Lin

This study aims to help scholars comprehend the major research themes on sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education which researchers from various fields have…

Implementation of sustainability principles in landscape architecture education: an examination of faculty attitudes and course syllabi

Hye Yeon Park, Carlos V. Licon, Jennifer Givens, Ole Russell Sleipness

This study aims to investigate the integration of education for sustainable development (ESD) into landscape architecture (LA) programs in North American universities to…

Measurement of sustainable attitudes: a scale for business students

María Angela Prialé, Angela Vera Ruiz, Agustin Espinosa, Joanna Noelia Kamiche Zegarra, Gustavo Adolfo Yepes López, Adrián Marcelo Darmohraj, Carlos Ivan Flores Venturi

This study aims to present the development and validation of a scale to measure the attitudes of Latin American business students toward sustainable management practices in the…

French agricultural education students: “intermediaries” in the fight against climate change?

Rachel Levy, Jean-Pierre Del Corso, François Seck Fall

The purpose of this study is to better understand how students of French agricultural education position themselves in the face of climate change and get involved in its fight.

Perceptions of South Africa’s higher education leaders on the realisation of sustainable development goal 4 quality education

Dominique Marié Nupen, Jayseema Jagernath, Shamola Pramjeeth

Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a key role in facilitating increases in socio-economic growth and economic development. Sustainable development goal 4 (SDG 4): quality…