Overview
- Describes campus greening initiatives in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary way
- Covers social sciences, economics, business, education and environmental sciences
- Provides universities with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts on campus
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (59 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts and Reflexions on Campus Greening
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About this book
This book showcases examples of campus-based research and teaching projects, regenerative campus design, low-carbon and zero carbon buildings, waste prevention, and resilient transport, among others. It also demonstrates the role of campuses as platforms for transformative social learning and research, and explores the means via which university campuses can be made more sustainable.
The aims of this publication are as follows:
i. to provide universities with an opportunity to obtain information on campus greening and sustainable campus development initiatives from round the world;
ii. to document and promote information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of research, teaching and projects on campus greening and design, especially successful initiatives and good practice;
iii. to introduce methodological approaches and projects which aim to integrate the topic of sustainable development in campus design and operations.
This book entails contributions from researchers and practitioners in the field of campus greening and sustainable development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to arts, administration and environment.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards Green Campus Operations
Book Subtitle: Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development Initiatives at Universities
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Fernanda Frankenberger, Patricia Iglecias, Roberta Consentino Kronka Mülfarth
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76885-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76884-7Published: 29 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08318-2Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76885-4Published: 14 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 909
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 195 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Energy Efficiency, Higher Education, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Waste Management/Waste Technology