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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Problematics
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Promise
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About this book
This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education.
Reviews
(Hans van Ginkel, President, International Association of Universities and Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan)
"This is a valuable book; it makes a significant and unique contribution to the burgeoning field of sustainable development. It is a fresh breeze with its stories of real academics working to make a difference in their courses, faculties, and universities."
(Dr. Karen Malone, Associate Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Australian Director of UNESCO's Growing Up in Cities Project)
"Issues of sustainability pose a Copernican level challenge to educators and educational institutions everywhere. Professors Corcoran and Wals have assembled an exemplary group of scholars and change agents to survey the field and the results are both useful and exciting. Strongly recommended for educators, administrators, and all interested in the transition to a world better than that in prospect."
(David W. Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Problematics, Promise, and Practice
Editors: Peter Blaze Corcoran, Arjen E. J. Wals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48515-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2026-1Published: 31 March 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2134-3Published: 31 March 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48515-2Published: 08 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 356
Topics: Economics, general, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Environmental Management, Ethics, Curriculum Studies