Overview
- Highly interdisciplinary, covering the social sciences, economics, business, education and the environmental sciences
- Comprehensively describes campus greening initiatives
- Provides universities with a sound basis for promoting sustainability efforts on campus
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Initiatives, Projects and Case Studies
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About this book
There is a lack of truly interdisciplinary publications that comprehensively address the issue of campus greening, and there is an even greater need for publications that do so at a truly international level. This book meets these needs. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second Symposium on Sustainability in University Campuses” (SSUC-2018), which was jointly organised by the University of Florence (Italy), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).
The book showcases examples of campus-based research and teaching projects, regenerative campus design, low-carbon and zero-carbon buildings, waste prevention, and resilient transport, among others. Ultimately, it demonstrates the role of campuses as platforms for transformative social learning and research, and explores the means by which university campuses can be made more sustainable.
The aims of this publication are as follows:
• to provide universities with essential information on campus greening and sustainable campus development initiatives from around the world;
• to share ideas and lessons learned in the course of research, teaching and projects on campus greening and design, especially successful initiatives and good practice; and
• to introduce methodological approaches and projects intended to integrate the topic of sustainable development in campus design and operations.
This book gathers contributions from researchers and practitioners in the field of campus greening and sustainable development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to the arts, administration and the environment, and hailing from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability on University Campuses: Learning, Skills Building and Best Practices
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Ugo Bardi
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15864-4
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 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15863-7Published: 21 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15866-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15864-4Published: 03 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 580
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Environmental Science and Engineering