Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education
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Climate Change Education at Universities: Relevance and Strategies for Every Discipline
Climate change education (CCE) is an essential response to the global threat of an average temperature rise beyond 1.5 °C (IPCC 2018). The most recent Global Education Monitoring Report by UNESCO in 2020 emphasiz...
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Open AccessCorrection : Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective
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Open AccessLow carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective
The implementation of sustainability at universities means that they can also play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy, and in assisting global efforts towards decarbonisation. Yet, not all of...
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Climate Change Education at Universities: Relevance and Strategies for Every Discipline
Climate change education (CCE) is an essential response to the global threat of an average temperature rise beyond 1.5 degrees C (IPCC 2018). The most recent Global Education Monitoring Report by UNESCO in 202...
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Exploring Carbon Education for All: The Carbon Literacy Project
There is an extraordinary scientific mandate for the urgent need for rapid and large-scale action to reverse catastrophic climate change complemented by the drive to transition our high-carbon societies to low...
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Open AccessHandling climate change education at universities: an overview
Climate change is a problem which is global in nature, and whose effects go across a wide range of disciplines. It is therefore important that this theme is taken into account as part of universities´ teaching...
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Exploring Carbon Education for All: The Carbon Literacy Project
There is an extraordinary scientific mandate for the urgent need for rapid and large-scale action to reverse catastrophic climate change complemented by the drive to transition our high-carbon societies to low...
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Open AccessLights Off, Spot On: Carbon Literacy Training Crossing Boundaries in the Television Industry
Proclaimed the “greenest television programme in the world,” the award-winning soap opera Coronation Street is seen as an industry success story. This paper explores how the integration of carbon literacy trai...
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Visual Displays of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Curricular and Extra-Curricular Activities at Nottingham Trent University—A Case Study
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been fully embedded into the formal and informal curriculum of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), United Kingdom. In order that staff and students ...
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Transformative Education to Address All Sustainable Development Goals
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Transformative Education to Address All Sustainable Development Goals
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Global Alliance of Tertiary Education and Sustainable Development
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Global Alliance of Tertiary Education and Sustainable Development
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A University Wide Approach to Embedding the Sustainable Development Goals in the Curriculum—A Case Study from the Nottingham Trent University’s Green Academy
Since 2015, governments, businesses and civil society, together with the United Nations have been encouraged to work towards seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustai...
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Addressing Food Waste Through University and Community Partnerships
The sustainability of local and global food systems is a significant challenge with far-reaching implications for all. The purpose of this paper, which addresses the specific issue of food waste, is to offer r...
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Beyond the Curriculum: Integrating Sustainability into Business Schools
This paper evaluates the ways in which European business schools are implementing sustainability and ethics into their curricula. Drawing on data gathered by a recent large study that the Academy of Business i...
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Academic Freedom, Bureaucracy and Procedures: The Challenge of Curriculum Development for Sustainability
In 2013, a group of colleagues at Nottingham Trent University (NTU)—a large UK HEI—was tasked with embedding sustainability throughout the institution. The options available to us were manifold, as were the ch...
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Food for Thought: A University-Wide Approach to Stimulate Curricular and Extracurricular ESD Activity
Sustainability and Higher Education have been the focus of much recent academic and professional research as there has been a growing expectation that Higher Education institutions will produce ‘sustainability...
