Higher Education for Sustainability : The Portuguese Case / Carolina Machado and J. Paulo Davim, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Machado, Carolina, editor.

Davim, J. Paulo, editor.

Series:

Management and industrial engineering.

Management and Industrial Engineering Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Environmental education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]

Summary:

This book presents the efforts that different educational institutions, with particular emphasis on higher education institutions, have been developing in order to contribute to a type of teaching that enhances sustainability. It also helps to understand the role that these organizations are playing in order to foster sustainability in their governance, teaching methods, and social life inside and outside the campus. Focusing specifically on the issue of sustainability in higher education in Portugal, the chapters of this book are written by Portuguese researchers and university professors and members of different Portuguese higher education institutions. The content reflects not only on the strategies, policies and procedures that have been developed in Portuguese higher education institutions in terms of sustainability, but also on the research that has been carried out in these same institutions. Among others, this book highlights The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network, the cultural and sustainability transformation, challenges and changes in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, the motivation and the well-being of University students in terms of sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education in Portugal.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network: A knowledge collaboration for sustainability transformation in Higher Education Institutions

Chapter 2 - Global academic rankings. A challenge or a chance to Portuguese Higher Education Institutions

Chapter 3 - UMinho’s seven guiding principles for sustainability strategies – A critical assessment

Chapter 4 - Sustainability at the University of Madeira: A cultural transformation

Chapter 5 - Sustainability and student motivation: does the campus matter?

Chapter 6 - Sustaining the well-being of University students: The role of expectations on the usefulness of education

Chapter 7 - The contribution of Social Sciences and Arts to the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education

Chapter 8 - Higher education for sustainability in Portugal: a glimpse about what has been studied and published.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Machado, Carolina Higher Education for Sustainability

ISBN:

3-031-28793-2

OCLC:

1378429881