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List of contents
From the contents: Environmental resources and sustainable development.- ESD Pedagogies.- Estate Management and sustainable development.- Innovation in sustainable development.- Knowledge Management and sustainable development.- Leadership and sustainability.- Long-Term Planning and sustainable development.- Networking for sustainable development.- Online classes and sustainability,definiton and relevance.- Professional Development and sustainability.- Programme Evaluation.- Purchasing policy for sustainable development.- Resource Efficiency and sustainability.- Risk assessment and sustainable development.- Risk Management for sustainable development.- Self-management of sustainability processes.- Stakeholder analysis through sustainability issues.- Sustainability Barriers.- Sustainability in Higher Education Declarations.- Sustainability Office.- Sustainability perceptions.- Sustainable transportation methods.- Transition Management techniques for sustainable development.- Waste Management strategies for sustainable development.- Carbon footprint assessments and sustainable development.- Carbon neutrality and sustainable development.- Climate finance and sustainable development.- Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) and sustainable development.- Conscious consumption and sustainable development.- Conservation and sustainable development.- Continuous improvement and sustainability.- Cradle-to-Cradle and sustainable development.- Cradle-to-Grave and sustainable development.- Divestment and sustainable development.- Economic equity and sustainable development.- Environmental justice and sustainable development.- Environmental Policy Statement and sustainable development.- Externalities in sustainability processes.- Facilities management and sustainable development.- Grassroots activism and sustainable development.- Green house gases and sustainable development.- Holistic approaches and sustainable development.
About the author
Walter Leal Filho (B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Phil., D.L., F.R.G.S.,F.R.S.A., F.R.S.B.) is a biologist and has various doctorates in subjects relating to the environment and sustainable development issues. He is Director of the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where he is in charge of a number of European projects. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 400 publications on the subjects of the environment, sustainable development, and climate change. Professor Leal is also the initiator of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP), a network of 128 universities sharing a common interest on sustainability research. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and the World Sustainability Series with Springer. He sits onthe editorial board of various journals. Professor Leal is fluent in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish and has a good knowledge of French. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on matters related to sustainable development.
Summary
This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 Sections:1. Policy-making, visioning, structures, management and strategies 2. Teaching, learning and competencies 3. Research and transformation 4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts5. Students and stakeholders´ initiatives and involvement The encyclopedia will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers, professors, researchers); technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.
