Sustainable Universities and Colleges

Sustainability Advances in Institutions of Higher Education

Mark Starik, Paul Shrivastava (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-1472-0 (ISBN)

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This book provides a set of decision and organizational models for the advancement of sustainability in higher education. International authors present how universities and colleges have attempted to advance sustainability both within and outside of their institutions, and how institutions of higher education can continue to upgrade those efforts to help lead societies toward greater sustainability in the future.

Transdisciplinary in scope, this book emphasizes the need for universities to advance both environmental and socio-economic sustainability, specifically by utilizing five key higher education functions: research, operations, outreach, teaching and stakeholder interactions. Authors explain how higher education institutions have the knowledge, legitimacy, and resources to make significant impacts on individuals and systems in their respective communities. They discuss the evolving nature of sustainability education in its movement away from anthropocentrism toward forward-thinking ecocentrism, with increased recognition of indigenous worldviews. Examining various avenues for innovation, authors dissect issues such as infrastructure, research and curriculum integration, and internal and external community engagement, and explore how sustainable solutions require commitment on all levels, and in all disciplines.

This book is a crucial resource for students and academics in management and sustainability and management and universities. It is also an inspiring read for university and college stakeholders including sustainability officers and staff and administrators.

Edited by Mark Starik, Senior Lecturer, Sustainability Management Program, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, Madison, Wisconsin, and Contributing Faculty Member, College of Health Sciences and Public Policy, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Paul Shrivastava, Professor, Department of Management and Organization, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, US and Co-President, The Club of Rome, Switzerland

Contents:
1 Introduction 1
Mark Starik and Paul Shrivastava
2 Needs and opportunities for sustainability programs
in higher education: insights from the global council
for science and the environment’s pathways toward
accreditation initiative 15
Jordan King, Katja Brundiers, and Krista Hiser
3 Sustainable practices as innovation adoption on campus 39
Jason C. Senjem
4 Higher education institutions can do more to lead society
toward resilience and sustainability 59
Thomas Benson
5 Transition 2026: stakeholder engagement and the
co-construction of a climate strategy in a French Business School 82
María Castillo, Susana Esper, Gustavo Birollo and Frank
G.A. de Bakker
6 Crystallization of a university’s sustainability efforts
around laudato si’: a case study of opportunities and challenges 105
Michael J. Pawlish
7 A student-driven approach to establishing sustainability
programs at colleges and universities: lessons from the
green office movement in Europe 120
Jean Wu
8 How universities enable sustainable solutions to persistent
social problems in Africa: the case of a Pan African
university alliance 132
Alessia Argiolas and Said Benamar
9 Schools of management making an impact:
operationalization mechanisms and methods for
contributing to organizational change 161
Bart van Hoof and Sjors Witjes
10 Sustainable transformation in business and management
higher education: an analysis of global and European
collaborative initiatives for positive impact 185
Julia Wolny
11 Disrupting the business curriculum for sustainability and
the common good: the Glasgow Caledonian New York
college experiment 208
Jacqueline LeBlanc and Gastón de los Reyes
12 Education for climate change: an andragogical approach
with a transdisciplinary framework 226
Younsung Kim
13 Enlightened education: advancing the sustainability of
schools, colleges, and universities by deployment of solar
photovoltaic infrastructure 250
Kenneth A. Walz
14 Decolonizing post-secondary sustainability education in
the Anthropocene 277
Kimberly M. Post

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Sustainability and Business series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-0353-1472-X / 103531472X
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-1472-0 / 9781035314720
Zustand	Neuware