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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

  • Comprehensively covers the whole spectrum of sustainability in higher education
  • Meets a demand for transdisciplinary publications on sustainability
  • Penetrates markets in Europe, North America and Australasia, supporting the efforts of universities to pursue sustainability

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Table of contents (267 entries)

  1. Business Unsustainability and Early Warning Systems

    • Johannes Platje, David Slim Zepeda Quintana
  2. Campus Greening and Sustainable Development

    • Rolando M. Rodríguez Lima
  3. Campus Sustainability Policies

    • Paulo Santos Almeida, Anderson Soares Lopes
  4. Carbon Footprint and Sustainable Development

    • Carolina Shizue Hoshino Neta, Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas
  5. Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development

    • Skaidrė Žičkienė, Zita Tamašauskienė
  6. Cleaner Production and Sustainable Development

    • Karin Tschiggerl, Milan Topic
  7. Community Learning on Sustainability

    • Tolulase Michael Ishola, Akinsiku Esther
  8. Community Outreach on Sustainability

    • Issa Ibrahim Berchin, Stephane Louise Boca Santa, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
  9. Composting and Sustainable Development

    • Tolulase Michael Ishola, Esther Temilola Ishola
  10. Contextual Learning for Sustainability

    • Aida Guerra, Jette E. Holgaard

About this book

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, such as:1. Policy-making,  visioning, structures, management and strategies 
2. Teaching, learning and competencies 
3. Research and transformation 
4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts
5. Students and stakeholders´  initiatives and involvement
 
The encyclopedia  will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers,  professors, researchers); technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals

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