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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Comprehensively covers the whole spectrum of sustainability in higher education
  • Meets a demand for transdisciplinary publications on sustainability
  • Penetrates markets in Europe, North America and Australasia, supporting the efforts of universities to pursue sustainability

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Table of contents (267 entries)

  1. “Deep” or “Strong” Sustainability

    • Renata Buriti

  2. Accountability and Sustainable Development

    • Tiffany C. H. Leung, Artie W. Ng

  3. Accreditation Schemes and Sustainable Development in Management Education

    • Mathias Falkenstein

  4. Action Research on Sustainable Development

    • Karin Tschiggerl

  5. Aesthetics and Sustainability

    • Aaron S. Allen

  6. Anthropocene and Sustainable Development

    • Leonardo Freire de Mello, Sara Aparecida de Paula

  7. Art-Based Teaching on Sustainable Development

    • Tony Wall, Eva Österlind, Julia Fries

  8. Arts-Based Approaches for Sustainability

    • Tony Wall, Eva Österlind, Julia Fries

  9. Assessment for Learning on Sustainable Development

    • Sharon Bramwell-Lalor

  10. Assessment of Sustainability Competencies

    • Qudsia Kalsoom

  11. Attitude Change to Sustainable Development

    • Qudsia Kalsoom

  12. Awareness of Sustainability Issues

    • Marcos Guilherme Raymundo, Carla Matheus, João Luiz de Moraes Hoefel

  13. Behavioral Aspects and Change Management for Sustainable Development

    • Gabriela L. Schmitz

  14. Behaviour Change for Sustainable Development

    • Kathleen Klaniecki, Katharina Wuropulos, Caroline Persson Hager

  15. Bio-construction Potential for Sustainability in São Paulo, Brazil

    • Caio Cesar Makalski Carvalho, Micheli Kowalczuk Machado, Estevão Brasil Ruas Vernalha

  16. Blended Learning and Sustainable Development

    • Sally Caird, Robin Roy

  17. Budgeting for Sustainability in Higher Education

    • Louis Brown

  18. Building Lifecycle and Sustainable Development

    • Tainá Nicolau de Campos, Micheli Kowalczuk Machado, Estevão Brasil Ruas Vernalha

  19. Business Education for Sustainable Development

    • Meredith Storey, Sheila Killian, Philip O’Regan

  20. Business Ethics and Sustainable Development

    • Clinton Cassar
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About this book

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, such as:1. Policy-making,  visioning, structures, management and strategies 
2. Teaching, learning and competencies 
3. Research and transformation 
4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts
5. Students and stakeholders´  initiatives and involvement
 
The encyclopedia  will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers,  professors, researchers); technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals

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