Higher Education For Sustainability: A Global Perspective

A Global Classroom for International Sustainability Education

Arnim Wiek, Michael J. Bernstein, Manfred Laubichler, Guido Caniglia, Ben Minteer, Daniel J. Lang School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Faculty Sustainability, Leu...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Sustainability Reporting At Higher Education Institutions

Introduction Multiple declarations, governmental and non-profit organizations and universities have issued a call for proper reporting of social and environmental impacts and initiatives within academia. Such reporting can increase awareness of environmental and social impacts, encourage development of sustainable policy and build a campus culture more committed to sustainability. 1 Sustainabil...

Pathways towards sustainability through higher education

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The barriers to sustainability are juxtaposed against the resources, responsibilities and potential of higher education. Ideas from several models and from within several disciplines are integrated to construct a framework through th...

Sustainability, Indicators, and Institutions of Higher Education

Indicators of commitment to sustainability commonly applied to institutions of higher education provide no estimate of the actual effects that these institutions have on the persistence or prevalence of the socioecological systems that encompass them. Emergy methodology provides a theoretical framework for addressing this practical oversight based on its fundamental insight into the interdepend...