What Do We Imagine the Campuses of Tomorrow Will Be like? Universities’ Transition Toward Sustainability in the Light of the Transition Initiatives
| Autor: | Mª Ángeles Murga-Menoyo, Angela Espinosa, María Novo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sustainable development
Vision Higher education business.industry 020209 energy Vulnerability 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Public relations 01 natural sciences Work (electrical) Political science Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering business Parallels Curriculum 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education ISBN: 9783319478760 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-47877-7_14 |
| Popis: | Growing numbers of schools of higher education are seeking not only to improve the quality of teaching but also to reduce their own vulnerability to the environmental crisis; and in this effort they are taking advantage of any synergies they can get from the contributions of pro-sustainability citizen movements and groups. This paper looks at one such movement, the Transition Initiatives, with the aim of finding synergies that could help consolidate a kind of university campus where greening is not restricted to management, but also pervades degree, class and subject curricula. The objective of the paper is to identify the traits of the Transition Initiatives, its similarities with universities’ vision of sustainable development and the steps it proposes for generating the kind of institutional management in continuous innovation that optimises the change toward sustainability. A hermeneutic methodology is used. The sources are bibliography and documents, reports and manifestos. The main contribution is to show where the Transition Initiatives and the university share parallels in their visions of sustainability and, based on that affinity, to point out the potential interest of a bottom-up organisational model for university management in continuous innovation and the optimisation of the change toward sustainability. The results leave open a path for future work to find empirical proof of the proposal’s feasibility. |
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