Table Of ContentsIntroduction of life cycle assessment and sustainability concepts in chemical engineering curricula
Alejandro Gallego-Schmid, Ximena C. Schmidt Rivera, Laurence Stamford
The implementation of life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting represents an important professional and research opportunity for chemical engineers, but this is…
Correlation between sustainability education and engineering students′ attitudes towards sustainability
Kuok Ho Daniel Tang
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of a sustainable development course on the beliefs, attitudes and intentions of a cohort of engineering students in…
Implementing the sustainable development goals at University level
Silvia Albareda-Tiana, Salvador Vidal-Raméntol, Mónica Fernández-Morilla
The purpose of this case study is to explore the principles and practices of sustainable development (SD) in the university curriculum.
Students′ experience of sustainability: health as a lever for action
Angélick Schweizer, Sébastien Miserez, Maria del Rio Carral, Marie Santiago-Delefosse
This study aims to deepen the authors′ understanding of higher education students′ perceptions about sustainability issues by focusing on their motivations to adopt (or…
The role of distributed leadership in mainstreaming environmental sustainability into campus life in an Israeli teaching college: A case study
Ilana Avissar, Iris Alkaher, Dafna Gan
Distributed leadership has been reported in the literature as an effective management approach for educational organizations such as institutions of higher education. This…
Measuring longitudinal student performance on student learning outcomes in sustainability education
Meghann E. Jarchow, Paul Formisano, Shane Nordyke, Matthew Sayre
The purpose of this paper is to describe the student learning outcomes (SLOs) for a sustainability major, evaluate faculty incorporation of the SLOs into the courses in…
The status of education for sustainable development and sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of UAE University students
Ali Khalfan Al-Naqbi, Qasim Alshannag
This study aims to investigate United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) students′ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors toward education for sustainable development (ESD) and…
Systematic curriculum integration of sustainable development using life cycle approaches: The case of the Civil Engineering Department at the Université de Sherbrooke
Bastien Roure, Chirjiv Anand, Véronique Bisaillon, Ben Amor
The purpose of this paper is to provide a consistent and systematic integration framework of sustainable development (SD) in a civil engineering (CE) curriculum, given the…
Nudging waste diversion at Western State Colorado University: application of behavioral insights
Kimberly McCoy, Justin J. Oliver, D. Scott Borden, Scott I. Cohn
This paper aims to test a nudge, or intervention, designed through behavioral insights at a university campus to discover cost-effective means for increasing recycling…
Proposing a master′s programme on participatory integrated assessment of energy systems to promote energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa
Cheddi Kiravu, François Diaz-Maurin, Mario Giampietro, Alan C. Brent, Sandra G.F. Bukkens, Zivayi Chiguvare, Mandu A. Gasennelwe-Jeffrey, Gideon Gope, Zora Kovacic, Lapologang Magole, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Ulpiano Ruiz-Rivas Hernando, Suzanne Smit, Antonio Vázquez Barquero, Felipe Yunta Mezquita
This paper aims to present a new master′s programme for promoting energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa.
Motivating students on ICT-related study programs to engage with the subject of sustainable development
Lorenz M. Hilty, Patrizia Huber
Sustainable development (SD) does not usually form part of the curriculum of ICT-related study programs such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Information…
Table Of Contents - Special Issue: Sustainability in CampusesAn overview of campus greening initiatives at universities in Romania
Mihaela Sima, Ines Grigorescu, Dan Balteanu
This paper aims to identify campus greening initiatives on a sample of universities in Romania reflected in the university curricula, the behavioral patterns of students…
Envisioning green solutions for reducing the ecological footprint of a university campus
Chiara Genta, Silvia Favaro, Giulia Sonetti, Caterina Barioglio, Patrizia Lombardi
This paper aims to report strategies towards a green campus project at Politecnico di Torino University, a 33,000-students Italian higher education institution (HEI), and…
The maturation process of incorporating sustainability in universities
Luis Vargas, Claudia Mac-Lean, Jean Huge
In the past few decades, sustainability in higher education has become ever more prevalent, although the diversity in pace of adoption and the wide range of…
INSPIRE sustainability internships : Promoting campus greening initiatives through student participation
Carolyn Susan Hayles
This paper aims to explore the outputs of an internship programme, one of a number of campus-based sustainability activities that have been introduced at the University of…
Putting sustainable campuses into force: Empowering students, staff and academics by the self-efficacy Green Office Model Maik Adomßent, Anselm Grahl, Felix SpiraThe lack of change structures can be seen as an important reason why sustainability continues to suffer a niche existence in most higher education organisations. This is a…
Challenges and benefits of student sustainability research projects in view of education for sustainability
Griet Ceulemans, Nathal Severijns
This paper aims to investigate the educational benefits and challenges of introducing natural science students to on-campus and off-campus sustainability research projects…
Governing the university in the perspective of the United Nations 2030 Agenda: The case of the University of Bologna
Angelo Paletta, Alessandra Bonoli
Starting from the experience of the University of Bologna, this paper provides an innovative framework to analyse how universities are rethinking courses and curricula…
How can ecological fairs increase sustainability in a university campus?
Luciana Londero Brandli, Amanda Lange Salvia, Leila Dal Moro, Vanessa Tibola da Rocha, Janaina Mazutti, Giovana Reginatto
This paper aims to highlight the contribution of ecological fairs to the promotion of sustainability in university campuses, based on a case study carried out at the…
Creating a context for campus sustainability through teaching and learning: The case of open, distance and e-learning
Rudi Wessel Pretorius, Ryan Anderson, Anisa Khotoo, Richelle Pienaar
This paper aims to reflect on approaches through which open, distance and e-learning (ODeL) students can use their local environments for assessments and explores how this…
Bridging the gap between theory and design: A proposal for regenerative campus development at the Swedish university of agricultural sciences
Daniel Bergquist, Christine A. Hempel, John Lööf Green
This paper aims to describe an exploratory research and design process that uses illustrative techniques to bridge the gap between theoretical principles of systems…
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