Overview
- Highly interdisciplinary, covering the social sciences, economics, business, education, and the environmental sciences
- Describes sustainability and living labs approaches in a comprehensive way
- Provides a sound basis to promote efforts in the field of sustainability among universities
- Fills in a market niche, offering the first comprehensive publication on the topic
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (52 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Campus as Living Labs for the SDGs
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About this book
This book fills an important gap in the literature, and presents contributions from scientists and researchers working in the field of sustainable development who have engaged in dynamic approaches to implementing sustainability in higher education. It is widely known that universities are key players in terms of the implementation and further development of sustainability, with some having the potential of acting as “living labs” in this rapidly growing field. Yet there are virtually no publications that explore the living labs concept as it relates to sustainability, and in an integrated manner. The aims of this book, which is an outcome of the “4th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2018), held in Malaysia in 2018, are as follows:
i. to document the experiences of universities from all around the world in curriculum innovation, research, activities and practical projects as they relate to sustainable development at the university level;
ii. to disseminate information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of projects, including successful initiatives and good practice;
iii. to introduce and discuss methodological approaches and projects that seek to integrate the topic of sustainable development in the curricula of universities; and
iv. to promote the scalability of existing and future models from universities as living labs for sustainable development.
The papers are innovative, cross-cutting and many reflect practice-based experiences, some of which may be replicable elsewhere. Also, this book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), reinforces the role played by universities as living labs for sustainable development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia, Rudi W. Pretorius, Luciana Londero Brandli, Evangelos Manolas, Fatima Alves, Ulisses Azeiteiro, Judy Rogers, Chris Shiel, … Arminda Do Paco
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15604-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15603-9Published: 14 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15604-6Published: 30 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 862
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 136 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Community and Environmental Psychology, Environment Studies