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Exploring Sustainable Behavior Structure in Higher Education

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Due to a lack of critical considerations related to dignity, human rights, equity, care for the environment, and sustainable development, along with human diversity, inclusiveness, participation, and sufficiency for all; as well as major concerns that have demanded global attention such as HIV/AIDS, migration, climate change, and urban sprawl which reflect social, political, economic, and environmental challenges facing humanity and the planet, the UNESCO (in report by the Director-General on the United Nations of Education for Sustainable Development: Draft International Implementation Scheme and UNESCO´S contribution to the implementation of the Decade, 2005) has promoted the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which, implemented in March 2005, emphasizes the importance of quality basic education and stresses that education must provide specific skills such as learning to know, learning to live together, learning to do, and learning to be (Delors et al. in Learning: The treasure within. UNESCO, Geneva, 1998).

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Juárez-Nájera, M. (2015). Introduction. In: Exploring Sustainable Behavior Structure in Higher Education. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19393-9_1

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