Editors:
- A highly interesting theme: sustainability in higher education
- A wide range of authors from 21 countries
- A strong interdisciplinary focus, raising interest in the social sciences, life sciences and education sectors
- A balanced combination of research, projects and teaching experiences, of interest to a wide academic audience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Integrative Processes and Concepts
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.
Reviews
“It provides some critical insights to bridge the gap between the revolution of sustainability studies and the actual actions and practices that could be followed to stimulate these studies in order to create positive impact for the future generations. … this book could be a useful guide to sustainability researchers, professionals and practitioners. … this book represents an informative input to sustainability knowledge in HEIs that could be used to develop more critical research avenues in different university and organisations.” (Mohamed Saeudy, Environmental Development and Sustainability, Vol. 17, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Environmental Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Walter Leal Filho
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
Book Subtitle: Working Across Disciplines
Editors: Walter Leal Filho
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08837-2
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 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08836-5Published: 22 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36045-4Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08837-2Published: 06 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 603
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, International and Comparative Education