Editors:
- Provides universities with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
- Describes curriculum innovation and teaching sustainable development in a comprehensive way
- Covers social sciences, economics, business, education, and environmental sciences
- Fills a market niche, offering a comprehensive reference on the topic
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book presents sustainable development themes across universities and introduces methodological approaches and projects to the teaching staff.
It has been prepared against this background, to identify ways to better teach about sustainability issues in a university context. It contains a set of papers presented at a Symposium with the same title, held at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in March 2017. The event was attended by a number of institutions of higher education active in this field. It involved researchers in the field of sustainable development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to arts and fashion, administration, environment, languages and media studies.
Sustainability is seldom systematically embedded in the curriculum at higher education institutions. Yet, proper provisions for curricular integration of sustainability issues as part of teaching programmes across universities are an important element towards curriculum greening.
The aims of this book are: (i) to provide teaching staff at universities active and/or interested in teaching sustainable development themes with an opportunity to document and disseminate their works (i.e. curriculum innovation, empirical work, activities, case studies practical projects); (ii) to promote information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of teaching courses, especially successful initiatives and good practice; (iii) to introduce methodological approaches and projects which aim to offer a better understanding of how matters related to sustainable development can be tackled in university teaching.
Last but not least, a further aim of this book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), is to catalyse a debate on the need to promote sustainable development teaching today.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Life Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Walter Leal Filho
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities
Book Subtitle: Approaches, Methods and Projects
Editors: Walter Leal Filho
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70281-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70280-3Published: 28 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88915-3Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70281-0Published: 17 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 330
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management