Sustainable Universities as an Essential Element of Education for Sustainable Development

Universities as Potential Actors for Sustainable Development

Universities can contribute to the solutions of major challenges of the 21st century such as increasing environmental and socio-economic crises, inequalities of income and wealth and political instabilities by integrating the concept of sustainable development (SD) in research, organization, and by educating future decision makers. For instance, by integrating sustainability into the organizati...

Typology of world's top universities through sustainable development

Sustainable university is one of the emerging issues that academics have been trying to achieve in recent decades. Therefore, considering the actions of top universities regarding sustainable university and using their experiences and their methods is a hidden treasure of knowledge that can be suitable for other universities on the sustainability road. In this study, an attempt was made to clas...

Development of framework for sustainable Lean implementation: an ISM approach

The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is one of the most powerful quality improvement methodologies, nearly two-thirds of the Lean implementations results in failures and less than one-fifth of those implemented have sustained results. One of the most significant tasks of top management is to identify, understand and deploy the significant Lean pra...

Unfolding Education for Sustainable Development as Didactic Thinking and Practice

This article‘s primary objective is to unfold how teachers translate education for sustainable development (ESD) in a school context. The article argues that exploring tensions, ruptures and openings apparent in this meeting is crucial for the development of existing teaching practices in relation to ESD. The article draws on doctoral research involving interviews with researchers and teachers ...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization