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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Sustainability in higher education"”.
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"to move forward, we had to change": a case study of organizational change sustainability in higher education
… of organizational change on communities within an organization and the long-term sustainability of the effects of change. Four overarching research goals guide the research: To gain knowledge in how policy implementation drives organizational change; to better understand how policies, people, …
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Planetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities
What is sustainability in Higher Education (HE)? How should it be represented? Who gets to decide? This thesis offers a response to a particular technocratic and teleological way of thinking about sustainability in Higher Education, which has a series of high profile advocates in theory and policy. …
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Cooling towers among ivory towers : a comparative analysis of research universities, electricity consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions
The rationale for university sustainability and existing international agreements on sustainability in higher education are reviewed in the context of developing a model to determine the linkages between three environmental impacts. It is proposed that larger university facilities draw more …
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Implementation of sustainability in the food and catering supply chains of UK HE institutions
Both organisations and customers are becoming more aware of the current economic, environmental and social challenges that the world faces today. In this context, it can be argued that universities are amongst the most important organisations that could contribute effectively in sustainability …
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Examining factors of environmental sustainability programs in institutions of higher education
This study is qualitative in nature and is a single exploratory case study examining the environmental sustainability and strategic planning initiatives of one campus, the University of Illinois at Chicago, of a multi-campus institution with a total of three campuses in the system, the University …
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Quantitatively Assessing the Role of Higher Education in Global Sustainability
Three analytical methods are used to examine three primary questions to address an observed scarcity of literature that quantitatively and empirically assesses the role of higher education in global sustainability. Linear regression is used to assess correlations between institutional environmental …