Making the Sustainable University : Trials and Tribulations / edited by Katie Leone, Simeon Komisar, Edwin M. Everham III.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leone, Katie, editor.

Komisar, Simeon, editor.

Everham, Edwin M., editor.

Series:

Education for Sustainability, 2367-1777

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Education, Higher.

Sustainability.

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Higher Education.

Local Subjects:

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Higher Education.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 310 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Summary:

This book documents strategies for universities engaging sustainability challenges through the education of global citizens on topics such as climate change, habitat alteration, species loss, resource depletion and contamination, food access and sovereignty, economic equity, and energy use. Different disciplines and operational units often have disparate ideas in mind when they work toward advancing sustainability. For example, some disciplines focus on environmental challenges (identifying impacts to ecosystems, mitigation and remediation strategies), some on greening of industrial and commercial practices while others address social equity—often there is little effort to connect these pieces especially while considering economic impacts. This book examines how Florida Gulf Coast University has attempted to infuse sustainability across curricula and operations as an integrated concept and our successes and shortcomings are instructional for sustainability practitioners on college campuses and other industries in a wide audience.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Sustainability Perspective at Florida Gulf Coast University

Chapter 2 Our Creation Story

Chapter 3 Planning the Sustainable University: From Aspiration to Implementation

Chapter 4 Creating a Culture of Sustainability: Organizational Strategies and Employee Training

Chapter 5 University Colloquium: Educating for a Sustainable Future

Chapter 6 Infusing Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Chapter 7 Grounded in Place: Strategies for Teaching Sustainability in Cross-Cultural Learning Communities

Chapter 8 Campus as a Living laboratory: the Built Environment

Chapter 9 Campus as a Living Laboratory: Conservation Areas that Create a Community who Then Ensure its Sustainability

Chapter 10 Implementing Sustainability: How Partnerships in Higher Education Operationalize Sustainability Lessons Taught in the Classroom

Chapter 11 Service-Learning as a High Impact Practice

Chapter 12 Student Leadership and Sustainability: The Florida Gulf Coast University Food Forest and the Real Food Challenge Pledge

Chapter 13 Students in the Driver’s Seat

Chapter 14 Mission-driven Education and Research in Action: Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education

Chapter 15 The FGCU Effect: Institutional Impact on Regional Sustainability

Chapter 16 Assessing Sustainability: Measuring Individual and Institutional Progress

Chapter 17 Building a green and sustainable university: An international review

Chapter 18 Leaders and Heroes: Sustaining the Sustainable University

Afterword: Sustainability in the time of Covid-19.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789813344778

9813344776

OCLC:

1398009391