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Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change

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Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability

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Pittman, J. (2004). Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change. In: Corcoran, P.B., Wals, A.E.J. (eds) Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48515-X_15

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