Sustainability Assessment Tools in Higher Education Institutions  -  Sandra Caeiro

Mapping Trends and Good Practices Around the World

KORTE INHOUD

This book contributes to debates on current sustainability practices, with a focus on assessment tools as applied in higher education institutions. These institutions are challenged to carry out management, research, and teaching, and to create settings that allow developing new competencies to address the complex global environmental, social, cultural, and economic pressures with which current and future generations are confronted.
The first chapters discuss issues of sustainability in higher education, namely the role of universities in promoting sustainability and the emergent fields of sustainability science and education for sustainable development and how to integrate and motivate sustainability into the university. Subsequent chapters present examples of sustainability assessment tools specifically developed for higher education institutions, such as the AISHE – Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education, the GASU – Graphical Assessment of Sustainability in Universities too, the STAUNCH ...
2013 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

Categorie

Details

2013 Uitgever: Springer 432 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 3319023748 ISBN-13: 9783319023748