Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons
©2012
Edited Collection
998 Pages
Summary
This book, prepared in the context of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, contains the papers submitted to the World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2012), which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 5 and 6 June 2012. It pursues the following main aims: to document and disseminate experiences from universities all round the world regarding education for sustainable development; to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of projects; and to introduce methodological approaches and projects which aim to integrate the topic of sustainable development in the curriculum of universities. Last but not least, a further aim is to document and disseminate the wealth of experiences available today, providing a truly global coverage. Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons is a highly comprehensive publication on sustainability in higher education. It is meant to go beyond a description of the current state of knowledge, and shall open the way for new thinking and new horizons in what is a rapidly expanding field, of central interest to both industrialised and developing countries.
Details
- Pages
- 998
- Publication Year
- 2012
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653022834
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631625606
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-02283-4
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (November)
- Keywords
- Nachhaltigkeit Rio Higher Education Students Industrial Design Education and Social Aspects Inclusion of Environmental
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 998 pp., 24 fig., 99 tables, 101 graphs
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