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

• Autore: Koehn Peter H.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 304.2071/1
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development - Study and teaching (Higher); Universities and colleges - Environmental aspects; Education, Higher - Environmental aspects
• Altri autori: UittoJuha I
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Universities and the sustainable development future
• ISBN: 1-315-44995-1; 1-315-44996-X; 1-315-44994-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969717003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II