The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities - Couverture rigide

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Synopsis

Rethinking Education for Sustainable Development: Interdisciplinarity, Community and Environmental Justice.- Looking Beyond Fossil Fuel Divestment: Combating Climate Change in Higher Education.- Declarations and Commitments: The Cognitive Practice of Sustainability Agreements.- Gauging Universities for Sustainability: Action Research as a Tool for Assessing and Influencing Organisational Transformation.- Food Production as a Niche Innovation in Higher Education.- Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in Universities of Applied Sciences.- Obstacles to Curriculum Greening: The Case of Green Chemistry.- Material Values, Goals, and Water Use: Results from a Campus Residence Hall Survey.- Social Sciences and Campus Sustainable Development: The Way Forward.

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À propos de l?auteur

Walter Leal Filho is a senior professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He specializes in matters related to sustainability in higher education and has in excess of 300 publications to his credit. He is the founding editor of the "International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education" and has undertaken a variety of projects addressing sustainability in a higher education context.

Michaela Zint is a professor at the University of Michigan, with appointments in the School of Natural Resources & Environment, School of Education, and College of Literature, Science & the Arts. Her environmental education research has been published in the leading journals of a variety of fields and she has served on a number of editorial boards. She teaches higher education students to apply insights from a range of social science disciplines to advance campus sustainability, out of which her interestin this particular volume arose.

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9783319800295: The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities

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ISBN 10 :  3319800299 ISBN 13 :  9783319800295
Editeur : Springer, 2018
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