Overview
- Offers a holistic overview of how higher education institutions have been working toward sustainability
- Presents cross-country comparisons to highlight differences, similarities and best practices for sustainable innovation
- Sheds light on the roles, tools, processes and challenges involved in managing sustainability performance
Part of the book series: Strategies for Sustainability (STSU)
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About this book
This contributed volume addresses the issue of how higher education institutions can systematically reorient themselves to help society become more sustainable. In particular, a strategic management approach is used to overcome the fragmentation of sustainability initiatives increasingly conducted by higher education institutions worldwide. In this book, eminent scholars in the field of sustainability in higher education combine their different backgrounds to propose conceptual frameworks for interpreting and measuring sustainability integration in higher education institutions. The chapters contained herein explore which processes and management tools should be used, as well the challenges to be faced, to make sustainable innovation effective. The cases present in this volume offer a guide for higher education institution management to lead the sustainability transition.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Building a More Sustainable World Through More Sustainable Higher Education Institutions
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Management and Assessment in HESD
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Lessons From Significant Experiences Across the World
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lucia Giovanelli obtained her PhD in Business Administration and Accounting in 1992 at the University of Pisa. She is Full Professor of Business Administration and Accounting in the Department of Economics and Business at the University of Sassari (Italy). She had been the Director of the same Department. She has published books and articles in refereed journals and she has many conference presentations. Her research interests include public management and accounting, healthcare management, higher education management and tourism management, and sustainability in higher education.
Rodrigo Lozano is an expert on sustainability and sustainable organisations. For more than twenty years, he has been working on topics such as education for sustainable development, corporate sustainability, circular economy, green chemistry, food waste, sustainable public procurement, assessment and reporting and change management. He has carried out research in theory and practice on higher education institutions, corporations, civil society organisations, and public sector organisations. He has had a variety of roles in academia and the private sector. He has considerable international and editorial experience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Strategies, Performance and Future Challenges
Editors: Federico Rotondo, Lucia Giovanelli, Rodrigo Lozano
Series Title: Strategies for Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54026-4
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 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54025-7Published: 01 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54028-8Due: 01 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54026-4Published: 30 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2212-5450
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1582
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 379
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Higher Education