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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. Continuous Improvements and Sustainability

    • Rabiya Karani, Madhavi Venkatesan
  2. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development

    • José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra, Mauri Luiz Heerdt, Issa Ibrahim Berchin
  3. Critical Food Pedagogy and Sustainable Development

    • Branden Lewis, Joy Kcenia O’Neil
  4. Critical Thinking and Sustainable Development

    • Denise Minott, Therese Ferguson, Garth Minott
  5. Cultural Sustainability in Higher Education

    • Lynn Payne, Joy Kcenia O’Neil
  6. Design of Study Programs on Sustainable Development

    • Alexandra Ershova, Denis Alexeev, Mikhail Shilin, Tatjana Bagrova
  7. Dimensions of Sustainability in Higher Education

    • Walter Leal Filho, Eric Pallant
  8. E-Learning and Sustainable Development

    • Daniel Otto, Sara Becker
  9. Eco-Schools and Sustainable Development

    • Hossein Meiboudi, Reza Arjmandi, Farzam Babaei Semiromi
  10. Ecocentric Education

    • Helen Kopnina
  11. Ecological Responsibility and Sustainable Development

    • Maria Sinara Alves de Lacerda, Patrick Vinicius Fonseca da Silva, Carla Matheus

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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