This manuscript presents a comprehensive managerial model of a sustainable university created with empirical data collected from eighty higher education institutions around the world. The sustainable university model offers a clear perspective about how people responsible for sustainability initiatives get from their initial momentum to advanced steps in the process to become a sustainable univ...

The chapter includes identification of the need for reconceptualization of architectural and urbanistic discourse in higher education and the definition of the transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable development of the living environment. Architecture and urbanism as complex disciplines that start from the existential social needs and reach to the most complex challenges and aspirations...

Higher education must provide students with tools for a broad and holistic understanding of the complex situations they will meet in their careers after graduate. This also includes issues related to sustainable development. Few studies have however been conducted where industry representatives specify what sustainability skills require. The aim present study is achieve better needs student’s k...

Purpose Accomplishing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is imperative for societies to meet their grand challenges. Achieving these goals by 2030 requires sustainability change agents with a can-do-attitude. This study aims show how institutions of higher education can become partners social marketing in bringing forward such agents. Design/methodology/approach Taking cas...

This research article deeps on higher education institution challenges in terms of governance, internationalization, research, student engagement and sustainability within an innovative adaptative academic framework necessary to achieve the ahead a highly competitive technologically changing environment. With this purpose series university strategic are reviewed analyzed order tackle establish ...