Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Political, Social, Economic and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Economic Complexity and the Environment: Evidence from Brazil

      • Julia Swart, Lisa Brinkmann

      Pages 3-45

   3. Consideration of Environmental and Socio-economic Aspects of a Territory for Sustainable Production and Consumption in a Biorefinery Context

      • Tatiana Bratec, Pauline Marty, Nadège Troussier

      Pages 47-60

   4. The Role of the Ecological Fiscal Transfers for Water Conservation Policies

      • Felipe Luiz Lima de Paulo, Pedro Jorge Sobral Camões

      Pages 61-69

   5. Green Infrastructure and Social Welfare. Lessons for Sustainable Urban Development in the Metropolitan Zone of Leon, Mexico

      • Jairo Agustín Reyes Plata, Mónica Elías Orozco, Iliana Zuri Jiménez Villaseñor

      Pages 71-88

   6. Exploring the Locus of Social Sustainability Implementation: A South Asian Perspective on Planning for Sustainable Development

      • Usama Awan, Andrzej Kraslawski, Janne Huiskonen, Nazia Suleman

      Pages 89-105

   7. Brief Analysis of the Scientific Articles Produced About “Social Innovation”, During the Last Ten Years

      • Sandra Aparecida Santos, Norma Brambilla, Ubiratã Tortato, Carlos Olavo Quandt

      Pages 107-114

   8. Green Practices in the Fashion Supply Chain: A Literature Review

      • Pedro Seolin dos Santos, Lucila M. S. Campos

      Pages 115-132

   9. Environmental Performance Measurement in Hospitals: A Bibliometric Review of Literature (1987–2017)

      • Andreia Pasqualini Blass, Sergio E. Gouvea da Costa, Edson Pinheiro de Lima, Ubiratã Tortato, Lilian Adriana Borges

      Pages 133-145

   10. Implementing Sustainable Development Through Environmental Camps: The Case of Skyros Project

       • Constantina Skanavis, Aristea Kounani, Konstantinos Tsamopoulos, Georgios Polymeris-Maripas, Athanasios Koukoulis, Lampros Topaltsis et al.

       Pages 147-167

3. Holistic Approaches to Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Strategies for the Promotion of Sustainable Urban Development: A Multicriteria Analysis

      • Samara da Silva Neiva, Jéssica de Souza Mauro, Wellyngton Silva de Amorim, Samuel Borges Barbosa, João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro, Giovanna Guilhen Mazaro Araújo et al.

      Pages 171-185

   3. International Transdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability Research Related to Place: Sustainable, Affordable Homes and Ecosystem Services in the U.S. and Brazil

      • Clarissa Ferreira Albrecht, Joyce Correna Carlo, Lisa Domenica Iulo, Peter D. Buckland

      Pages 187-201

   4. Analysis of Behavioral Changes Observed in Users of Sustainable Practices

      • Carlos Victor Bragatto Prates, Matheus Cardoso Esposito Rafael, Miguel Augusto Sabino de Freitas, Erick de Almeida Soares

      Pages 203-213

   5. Measuring the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at a Local Level: The WeGIx Index

      • Gisela Marta Oliveira, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Lilian Monteiro Ferrari Viterbo, Rui Leandro Maia

      Pages 215-245

   6. Sustainable Behavior and Its Antecedents: A Systematic Literature Review

      • Aline Alvares Melo, Ubiratã Tortato, Fabrício Baron Mussi

      Pages 247-257

   7. The Amerindian Good Living as a Sustainable Alternative to Latin American Development

      • Adriano Fabri, Dimas Floriani

      Pages 259-272

   8. Application of Information Entropy to Assessment Environmental Sanitation Sustainability Conditions: A Case Study at the River Grande Basin, Brazil

      • Janaína Ferreira Guidolini, Angélica Giarolla, Gustavo Felipe Balué Arcoverde, Evandro Albiach Branco, Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

      Pages 273-289

   9. Sustainability in the Decision Making Process: A Systematic Review of Literature

      • Rafael Felix da Silva, Edelvino Razzolini Filho

      Pages 291-305

The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).

• Sustainability and Communities
• Sustainable Development
• Higher Education
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Innovation

• European School of Sustainability Science and Research, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Business School, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil

  Ubiratã Tortato, Fernanda Frankenberger

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