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Record Nr.

UNINA9911109734203321

Autore

Koehn Peter H.

Titolo

Universities and the sustainable development future : evaluating higher-education contributions to the 2030 agenda / / Peter H. Koehn and Juha I. Uitto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-44995-1

1-315-44996-X

1-315-44994-3

9781315449968

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

UittoJuha I

Disciplina

304.2071/1

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Study and teaching (Higher)

Universities and colleges - Environmental aspects

Education, Higher - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The role of today's universities in advancing sustainable development -- pt. II. Universities and sustainable-development evaluations -- pt. III. Framework for enhanced university sustainabledevelopment evaluations -- pt. IV. Sustainable development and enhanced university process, outcome, and impact evaluations.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited. Universities and the Sustainable Development Future offers institutions of higher learning around the world practical guidelines that can be applied contextually to produce credible evidence regarding the outcome and impact of their teaching, research, and transnational-partnering activities. Drawing on innovative applications of lessons from



experience with international-development cooperation, this book demonstrates the utility of a flexible framework that will inspire substantial improvements in the ways universities evaluate and improve their sustainable-development undertakings aimed at promoting Agenda 2030. This book promotes an inclusive evaluation framework that will allow universities to illuminate sustainable-development outcomes, and it provides a cutting-edge resource for students, scholars, and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development, climate change, and evaluation challenges.