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The paper analyzes two important Universities’ network in Italy. The first network is the Venice International University, in partnership with some major universities in U.S. and the world; the second one is UNISCAPE, based in Florence, a consortium of 52 European Universities to implement the European Landscape Convention. Some case studies are proposed to discuss the education for sustainable development (ESD) in a globalized world. The aims are to evaluate not only the networks’ contributions in Italy for ESD implementation in Universities’ curricula, but also future directions to develop capacity building between these process’ actors, considering particularly the priority of ecosystem services approach to Natural Capital theory. This approach recognizes an economic value to natural resources in opposition to the critique of nature commodification, regarding these common goods; that gives rise, instead, to alternative measures of progress and sustainable development goals.
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Collaro, C. (2015). University Networks in Italy and Their Intellectual Contribution to Implement Sustainable Development Issues in the CV. In: Leal Filho, W., Azeiteiro, U., Caeiro, S., Alves, F. (eds) Integrating Sustainability Thinking in Science and Engineering Curricula. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09474-8_29
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