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Educating Built Environment Professionals in Developing Countries: Case Study from Indonesia

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Adaptation and mitigation approaches to built environment education; Climate change education; Integrating sustainability knowledge in built environment education; Learning about sustainability; Learning for sustainability

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A systematic change is needed in built environment education to respond to current challenges for low-carbon futures. The impact of sustainability, climate change, resilience, adaptation, mitigation, resource efficiency, and all such interrelated factors in the built environment calls for a renewed focus on the body of knowledge that has to date focused only on traditional approaches to built environment planning, design, and operation. Graduates of built environment programs need to be able to take proactive action to achieve low-carbon futures.

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This entry considers the challenge for higher education institutions that educate built environment professional stemming from high rates of urbanization and accompanying growth in greenhouse...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Usha Iyer-Raniga

  2. One Planet Network Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme, UN Environment, Paris, France

    Usha Iyer-Raniga

  3. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tony Dalton

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Petra Molthan-Hill

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Iyer-Raniga, U., Dalton, T. (2020). Educating Built Environment Professionals in Developing Countries: Case Study from Indonesia. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_68-2

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    Educating Built Environment Professionals in Developing Countries: Case Study from Indonesia
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_68-2

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    Educating Built Environment Professionals in Developing Countries: Case Study from Indonesia
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