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Teaching sustainability to business students: shifting mindsets
Wendy Stubbs, Chris CocklinThis paper seeks to describe a framework used to help MBA students understand and reconcile the different sustainability perspectives.
An overview of extra‐curricular education for sustainable development (ESD) interventions in UK universities
Bryan P. Lipscombe, Cynthia V. Burek, Jacqueline A. Potter, Chris Ribchester, Martin R. DeggThe purpose of this paper is to explore the extent and type of extra‐curricular ESD‐related practice in UK universities and to record opinions about the utility of such work.
Sustaining academic life: A case for applying principles of social sustainability to the academic profession
Cathryn Hammond, Deborah ChurchmanThis paper aims to examine the social sustainability of academic work in Australian tertiary institutions, in addition to offering a summary of recent research on social…
Operationalizing sustainability education at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
John CusickThe purpose of this paper is to further operationalize sustainability education at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) through a review of past actions and situate these in…
Capacity building: a course on sustainable development to educate the educators
Francisco J. Lozano‐García, Guillermo Gándara, Orietta Perrni, Mario Manzano, Dora Elia Hernández, Donald HuisinghThe purpose of this paper is to present information about a team‐teaching course on sustainable development (SD) for educators in an institution of higher education, Monterrey…
The current state of sustainability in bioscience laboratories: A statistical examination of a UK tertiary institute
Hazel A. Wright, Joseph E. Ironside, Dylan Gwynn‐JonesThis study aims to identify the current barriers to sustainability in the bioscience laboratory setting and to determine which mechanisms are likely to increase sustainable…
An international comparative analysis of sustainability transformation across seven universities
D. Ferrer‐Balas, J. Adachi, S. Banas, C.I. Davidson, A. Hoshikoshi, A. Mishra, Y. Motodoa, M. Onga, M. OstwaldThe purpose of this paper is to identify the key aspects of transformation of universities towards sustainability, such as the ideal characteristics of the “sustainable…
Higher education as a change agent for sustainability in different cultures and contexts
Jennie C. Stephens, Maria E. Hernandez, Mikael Román, Amanda C. Graham, Roland W. ScholzThe goal of this paper is to enhance consideration for the potential for institutions of higher education throughout the world, in different cultures and contexts, to be change…
Learning outcomes for sustainable development in higher education
Magdalena Svanström, Francisco J. Lozano‐García, Debra RoweThis paper sets out to discuss the commonalities that can be found in learning outcomes (LOs) for education for sustainable development in the context of the Tbilisi and Barcelona…
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