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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Comprehensively covers the whole spectrum of sustainability in higher education

  • Meets a demand for transdisciplinary publications on sustainability

  • Penetrates markets in Europe, North America and Australasia, supporting the efforts of universities to pursue sustainability

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Table of contents (515 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. A

    1. Accessibility

      Pages 1-1

    2. Accountability and Sustainable Development

      • Tiffany C. H. Leung, Artie W. Ng
      Pages 1-8

    3. Accreditation Schemes and Sustainable Development in Management Education

      • Mathias Falkenstein
      Pages 8-15

    4. Action Inquiry

      Pages 15-15

    5. Action Learning

      Pages 15-15

    6. Action Research

      Pages 15-15

    7. Action Research on Sustainable Development

      • Karin Tschiggerl
      Pages 15-25

    8. Adult Developmental Psychology

      Pages 25-25

    9. Aesthetic Inquiry

      Pages 25-25

    10. Aesthetics

      Pages 25-25

    11. Aesthetics and Sustainability

      • Aaron S. Allen
      Pages 25-33

    12. Anthropocene and Sustainable Development

      • Leonardo Freire de Mello, Sara Aparecida de Paula
      Pages 33-42

    13. Applied Theatre

      Pages 42-42

    14. Appropriation of Funding for Sustainability in Higher Education

      Pages 42-42

    15. Areas of Sustainability

      Pages 42-42

    16. Art for Well-Being

      Pages 42-42

    17. Art Pedagogy for Health

      Pages 43-43

    18. Art Pedagogy for Sustainability

      Pages 43-43

    19. Art Therapy

      Pages 43-43
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About this book

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 Sections:1. Policy-making,  visioning, structures, management and strategies 
2. Teaching, learning and competencies 
3. Research and transformation 
4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts
5. Students and stakeholders´  initiatives and involvement
 
The encyclopedia  will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers,  professors, researchers); technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Walter Leal Filho (B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Phil., D.L., F.R.G.S.,F.R.S.A., F.R.S.B.) is a biologist and has various doctorates in subjects relating to the environment and sustainable development issues. He is Director of the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where he is in charge of a number of European projects. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 400 publications on the subjects of the environment, sustainable development, and climate change. Professor Leal is also the initiator of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP), a network of 128 universities sharing a common interest on sustainability research. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and the World Sustainability Series with Springer. He sits on the editorial board of various journals. Professor Leal is fluent in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish and has a good knowledge of French. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on matters related to sustainable development.

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