International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 16 Issue 2

Assessing students’ motivation to engage in sustainable engineering

Mary McCormick, Angela R. Bielefeldt, Christopher W. Swan, Kurtis G. Paterson

The purpose of this study was to design an assessment instrument to evaluate students’ attitudes toward sustainable engineering (SE). Factors that impact SE beliefs could then be…

Quest for a sustainable university: a review

Luís P. Amaral, Nelson Martins, Joaquim B. Gouveia

– The paper aims to deliver a general review of the methods used to pursue the concept of a “sustainable university”.

Transportation sustainability on a university campus

David H. Kaplan

This paper aims to show the present level of sustainable transportation, mainly walking and bicycling, on a large campus in the US Midwest and then analyzes some of the…

Capstone interdisciplinary team project: a requirement for the MS in sustainability degree

Latif M. Jiji, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, George A. Smith

This paper aims to describe experience gained with a required six-credit year-long course, the Capstone Interdisciplinary Team Project, a key component of the Master of Science…

Barriers to energy efficiency and the uptake of green revolving funds in Canadian universities

John Maiorano, Beth Savan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the barriers to the implementation of energy efficiency projects in Canadian universities, including access to capital, bounded…

An exploratory study of sustainable development at Italian universities

Emidia Vagnoni, Caterina Cavicchi

This paper aims to outline the current status of the implementation of sustainability practices in the context of Italian public universities, highlighting the strengths and gaps…

Reviewing the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes at Plymouth University

Lynne Wyness, Stephen Sterling

This paper aims to present an overview of the design and implementation of a curriculum review undertaken at Plymouth University, UK, to gauge the incidence and status of…

Determining factors of environmental education in Spanish universities

Manuel Larrán, Javier Andrades

This study aims to analyze the main factors that might determine the extent to which Spanish organizational management educators use environmental stand-alone subjects to equip…

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