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Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Development Implementing a Whole-Institution Approach

Sustainability is an urgent developmental task for our society and is attracting increasing attention. Therefore, higher education institutions (HEIs) are also called upon to deal theoretically, conceptually, methodically, critically, and reflectively with the associated challenges and the processes...

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Main Author: Rieckmann, Marco
Other Authors: Bormann, Inka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
Subjects:
Universities
Germany
Catalytic Science
Sustainability Transitions
Sustainable Development Goals
Organisational Factors
Sustainable University Development
Sustainability Governance
Survey
Organization
Transdisciplinary Research
Interpretative Structural Modelling (ism)
Shared Governance
Higher Education
Higher Education Institutions (heis)
Alliances
Performance
Organizational Change
Transfer
Whole-institution Approach
Constant Comparative Analysis
Societal Transformation
Systemic Transformation
Systems Theory
Values
Higher Education For Sustainable Development (hesd)
Global South
Worldviews
Competencies
Public
Inter-organizational Networks
Practitioner-university Partnership
Education / Bicssc
Knowledge
Sd
Profession
Governance Equalizer
Loose Coupling
Whole Institution Approach
Environment
Higher Education Development
Sustainability Assessment
History / Bicssc
Systemic Development
Universities As Echo Chambers Of Society
Case Study
German-speaking Countries
Intellectual Capital
Athletic Departments
Grammar Of Responsibility
Narrative Analysis
Universities' Transformation
Sensemaking
Quality Of Life
Education For Sustainable Development
Sustainability Assessment Tool
Sustainability In Science
United States
Organizational Networks
Cross-sector Collaboration
Politics
Implementation
Higher Education Institutions
Transformative Science
Multi-professional Collaboration
Sustainability
Organizational Culture
Environmental Management Performance
Societal Impact
Ethics Of Knowledge
University
Discourse Analysis
Sustainable Development
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Summary:Sustainability is an urgent developmental task for our society and is attracting increasing attention. Therefore, higher education institutions (HEIs) are also called upon to deal theoretically, conceptually, methodically, critically, and reflectively with the associated challenges and the processes and conditions of transformation in order to contribute to sustainable development. How can complex organisations such as HEIs succeed in initiating and maintaining the process of sustainable development within their own institutions and make it a permanent responsibility? How can as many protagonists as possible be persuaded to get involved in sustainable development? This book deals with the promotion of sustainable university development and provides an overview of how universities can be organised sustainably and how sustainable development can be implemented in their various functional areas. In the sense of a "whole-institution approach", which encompasses entire HEIs, the focus is not only on the core areas of teaching (higher education for sustainable development) and research (sustainability in research) but, also, on the operational management of HEIs. In addition, this book focuses on sustainability governance and transfer for sustainable development at HEIs as cross-disciplinary issues.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (296 p.)
ISBN:9783039369898
9783039369881
books978-3-03936-989-8

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