Sustainability and University Life

by Leal Filho, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780820448008
• ISBN10: 0820448001
• Edition: Map
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(8)
Sustainability and University Life: Some European Perspectives	19	(12)
Walter Leal Filho
Critical Dimensions of Sustainability in Higher Education	31	(16)
Richard M. Clugston
Wynn Calder
Driving Environmental Strategy with Stakeholder Preferences - A Case Study of the University of Surrey	47	(20)
Andy Davey
Graham Earl
Roland Clift
Technology and Sustainable Development: Sustainability as a Challenge for Engineers	67	(12)
Karel F. Mulder
Sustainability Through Incremental Steps? The Case of Campus Greening at Rensselaer	79	(10)
Steve Breyman
Managing U.S. Campuses with an Ecological Vision	89	(16)
Alberto Arenas
Institutional change and leadership in greening the campus	105	(24)
Aaron Allen
``ECOCAMPUS'': a ``Practice-What-You-Preach'' European collaboration	129	(20)
J. Roturier
A. de Almeida
E. Apostolidou
D. Berbecaru
J. F. Bonnet
R. Cazanescu
P. Faucher
S. Gabriel
A. Gula
M. Kwiatkowski
T. Laine
Th. Lamouche
J. Norgard
Ph. Outrequin
Institutional Commitment to the Environment and Sustainability: A Peak of Excellence at Middlebury College	149	(18)
Nan Jenks-Jay
University support to local and regional agenda initiatives for sustainable development	167	(16)
Andreas Megerle
Heidi Megerle
Sustainability and Higher Education in Asia-Pacific	183	(10)
Jacob Park
Ted Tschang
Promoting Environmental Citizenship and Sustainability in Regional Campuses: Experiences from a Consortium of 15 Colleges and Universities	193	(18)
Robert S. Whyte
The Dutch Sustainability Award for Higher Education 1998	211	(8)
Hanno Lans
Transformation or Irrelevance: The Challenge of Academic Planning for Environmental Education in the 21st Century	219	(14)
David W. Orr
Greening Campuses: An overview of student activism and progressive administration	233	(10)
Scott Cole
Sustainable agriculture and land management in the liberal arts: A case study	243	(10)
Eugene B. Bakko
Appendix 1 University and Sustainability: an African perspective	253	(4)
Samson Katikiti
Appendix 2 The Need for Student Inputs: oikos-International Student Organization for Sustainable Economics and Management	257	(4)
Alexander Barkaw
About the authors	261	(8)
Index	269