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Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level

Making the Links

  • A highly interesting theme: sustainability in higher education
  • A wide range of authors from 13 countries
  • A strong interdisciplinary focus, with a combination of research, projects and teaching experiences, of interest to a wide academic audience
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)

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Table of contents (49 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Contextualising Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Digital Learning for Sustainability: An Interactive Magazine for Students, Academics and Expert Practitioners

      • Antonius Raghubansie, Wendy Corbett, Katy Boom, Lorraine Weaver
      Pages 3-17
    3. The Application of Ecological Footprint Analysis to Distance Learning University Contexts: A Case Study of the College of Education, University of South Africa

      • Maicom Sergio Brandão, Patricia C. Silva Leme, Callie Loubser, Johann Dreyer, Soul Shava, Welington Braz Carvalho Delitti
      Pages 155-167
    4. Indicator-Based Analysis of the Process Towards a University in Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the University of Tübingen (Germany)

      • Simon Meisch, Nikolas Hagemann, Johannes Geibel, Elisabeth Gebhard, Moritz A. Drupp
      Pages 169-183
    5. Carbon Stored in a Sustainable University Building: Bringing Education to Practice

      • Bruno V. Kobiski, Eloy F. Casagrande, Gabriel Pendleton
      Pages 185-196

About this book

This book documents and compares the experiences of a wide range of universities across the five continents with regard to sustainable development, making it of special interest to sustainability researchers and practitioners. By showcasing how integrative approaches to sustainable development at the university level can be successfully employed to bridge the gaps between disciplines, the book provides a timely contribution to the literature on sustainability and offers a valuable resource for all those interested in sustainability in a higher education context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Environmental Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  • Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Olga Kuznetsova

  • Department of Business and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Arminda Maria Finisterra do Paço

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level

  • Book Subtitle: Making the Links

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Luciana Brandli, Olga Kuznetsova, Arminda Maria Finisterra do Paço

  • Series Title: World Sustainability Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10690-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10689-2Published: 27 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38507-5Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10690-8Published: 09 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2199-7373

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 731

  • Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Environmental Management

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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