this research has used a mixed methodology with both quantitative and qualitative approaches. the study population included three groups; the post-graduate students, professors and academic staff at two universities, khouzestan ramin agriculture and natural resources university and bu-ali sina university. for collecting quantitative data among 320 students, 175 were selected using random sampli...

Sustainable development (SD) requires companies to take into account both the social and environmental consequences within their activities. This paper presents research about green supply chain management and highlight the differences between green supply chain and traditional supply chain management. Then, the paper analyses the sources of the risk in green supply chain according to the SD. S...

the data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. the validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. the total calculated alpha was 0....

According to UNESCO's recent documents, sustainable development is the “ultimate goal of the Man-environment relationship”; thus, the whole educational process should be “reshaped for sustainable development.” In view of the extreme importance of their educational impact, such statements need to be discussed. To which conception of environment, of education and of sustainable development does t...

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The present research team reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development. To strengthen pub...

Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e., local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how...

Sustainable development is highly dependent on the implementation of environmental education programs, which has as its ultimate goal to produce environmentally literate citizens that undertake environmentally friendly actions. Efforts on environmental education along past years are now perceived on the increase of citizens awareness on European countries and, particularly, in Portugal. However...

Involvement in Higher Education is seen by many people as a means of developing students’ critical abilities and is allied with the assumption that such learning will be benefi cial to the world-wide community. Th is viewpoint was exemplifi ed in the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit, where the role of Higher Education in preparing students to participate in an informed way with sustainable develo...

This paper seeks to reflect on recent developments in higher education for planning sustainable cities and to draw out the insights from relevant literature emerging from the underexplored interface of the geographies of higher education and policy mobilities. It emerges from an informal review of our own institution’s marketing, coordination and monitoring of sustainable cities-relevant progra...