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Green Campuses and Sustainable Development

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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

Synonyms

Eco-campus; Greening campus

Definition

Green Campus is then understood as the model through which higher education institutions develop infrastructures able to make the interaction between environment and university dwellers live together in a sustainable way. As “micro-cities,” those campuses should be administered like communities, including their users and employees participation, aiming at education on environment preservation. This concept includes the dimensions of consciousness and education toward sustainability, clean energies, energy efficiency, water efficiency, waste management, and sustainable transports in campus.

Introduction

Higher education schools are seen as the core to a larger social change, with the priority task of implementing the creation of sustainability consciousness in society (Lauder et al. 2015). Universities are frequently considered key-institutions in the process of social change and development (Brennan et al. 2004). During the last two...

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  1. Department of International Relations, University of Southern Santa Catarina (Unisul), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro

  2. Center for Sustainable Development (Greens), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul), Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Stephane Louise Boca Santa

  3. Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

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Ribeiro, J.M.P., Santa, S.L.B., de Andrade Guerra, J.B.S.O. (2019). Green Campuses and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_239

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