International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 17 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Michaela Zint

What goes on behind closed doors?: How college dormitory residents change to save energy during a competition-based energy reduction intervention

Nicole Sintov, Ellen Dux, Agassi Tran, Michael Orosz

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the impact of a competition-based intervention combining high-resolution electricity feedback, incentives, information and prompts on…

The value of adding ambient energy feedback to conservation tips and goal-setting in a dormitory

Abigail Karp, Michelle McCauley, Jack Byrne

The majority of research on energy feedback has been conducted in residential households; in this study, the authors aim to examine the effectiveness of similar initiatives in a…

Recycling as a result of “cultural greening”?

Julia A. Flagg, Diane C. Bates

This study aims to test whether faculty and students who have developed the most pro-environmental values and concerns are also the most likely to reduce the on-campus waste…

Rationale of early adopters of fossil fuel divestment

Christopher Todd Beer

This research uses the social science perspectives of institutions, ecological modernization and social movements to analyze the rationale used by the early-adopting universities…

Greening the campus: a theoretical extension of the dialogic communication approach

Serena Carpenter, Bruno Takahashi, Alisa P. Lertpratchya, Carie Cunningham

The purpose of this study is to examine the strategic organization-public dialogic communication practices of universities in the USA. The authors used the dialogic model of…

Enhancing sustainability curricula through faculty learning communities

Lisa W. Natkin, Tammy Kolbe

Although the number of higher education institutions adopting sustainability-focused faculty learning communities (FLCs) has grown, very few of these programs have published…

Collective action competence: an asset to campus sustainability

Charlotte R. Clark

The purpose of this paper is to operationalize theories of social learning and collective action for campus sustainability practitioners at higher education instititions (IHEs) to…