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Direct linkLetícia Oestreich; Álvaro Neuenfeldt Júnior; Alejandro Ruiz-Padillo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Unplanned urban mobility causes negative effects on the population and the environment. This study aims to understand how higher education institutions (HEIs) are managing the transportation issues related to their activities and how they are implementing actions towards more sustainable practices in this regard.…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Higher Education, Sustainability, Transportation
Tawanda Jimu; Britta Rennkamp – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to present insights on the governance of sustainability transitions in higher education in Africa. The authors interrogate the research literatures on the governance of socio-technical transitions in water, electricity, transport and waste management, and identify barriers and enabling factors that enhance transformative…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Networks, Governance, Universities
Karin Farag; Can Baran Aktas – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the most prevalent initiatives undertaken by leading universities in sustainability and offer a roadmap for other institutions seeking to undertake similar actions and contribute to more effective implementation of sustainability practices. Design/methodology/approach: By using a quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
Zhang, Sumei; Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use the optimization modeling method to explore whether there is an ideal arrangement of course enrollments that can yield optimal parking demand and supply on college campuses. Design/methodology/approach: Using the University of Louisville as a case study, this study deploys a three-step analytical…
Descriptors: Campuses, Facilities, Motor Vehicles, Transportation
Ferrari, Enzo; Reyes-Carrasco, Paula Mariel; Barrón Ruíz, Angela; Ruíz, Camilo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to introduce a new instrument to assess the perception of the university community after the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) and its application at the Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) in Spain. This CED includes a comprehensive program to reduce the carbon footprint and the introduction of the education for sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development, College Students
Liwång, Hans – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This study has a scope limited to a specific course and changes integrated to the core of the KTH naval architecture master program. The students in the program have earlier experience from engineering applications in a general sustainability perspective and understand the basic concepts within sustainability. Therefore, to introduce…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Engineering Education, Design
Baig, Muhammad Hamza; Waheed, Abdul; Rana, Irfan Ahmad; Abbas, Kulsoom – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers halting the usage of sustainable modes of transportation in a university campus. Design/methodology/approach: Two large-scale universities, namely, Quaid-i-Azam University and the National University of Sciences and Technology, in Islamabad have been taken as case studies with a sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Transportation, Sustainability
Platje, Joost; Will, Markus; Van Dam, Ynte K. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Management education trainers are increasingly called upon to train students to devise interventions for sustainable development in business settings. Due to the dominant reductionist paradigm, these interventions may lead to unwanted side effects. Teaching students about unacknowledged feedback loops in complex systems should prevent…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Intervention, Feedback (Response)
Versteijlen, Marieke; van Wee, Bert; Wals, Arjen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Daily commuting trips of higher education (HE) students account for a large proportion of the carbon footprint of a HE institution. Considerations of students underlying their choice of travel mode and their decision to make the trip to campus or to study online are explored as a necessary first step for finding an optimal balance between…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Travel, Transportation
Cogut, Gregory; Webster, Noah J.; Marans, Robert W.; Callewaert, John – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Sustainability literature has cited the influential role of both awareness and engagement in facilitating increases in pro-environmental behaviors. The purpose of this study is to compare these links across behaviors and explore their interactive influence. Design/methodology/approach: Two research questions were examined: 1) Is awareness…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Travel, Transportation, Campuses
Cattaneo, Mattia; Malighetti, Paolo; Morlotti, Chiara; Paleari, Stefano – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: This study aims to explore the propensity of university students to use different sustainable transport modes, taking into account individual and specific trip characteristics, as well as students' psychological traits (i.e. attitudes). Design/methodology/approach: Using the transport mode preferences of 827 students who responded to a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Transportation, Conservation (Environment)
Moreno, Jorge O.; Caamal-Olvera, Cinthya G.; Luna, Edgar M. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the demand for mobility in higher education to understand the critical elements of students' mobility and the potential impact of accessing sustainable alternatives. The demand for different means of transportation accounts for socioeconomic variables such as household income and size, gender, age, among other…
Descriptors: Transportation, Sustainability, Metropolitan Areas, Mobility
Soltani, Ali; Allan, Andrew; Nguyen, Ha Anh; Berry, Stephen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to clarify the differences between students' travel behaviours in Australia and China and the association between students' environmental attitudes and their travel behaviours in both countries. Design/methodology/approach: The paper extensively reviewed most of existing literature work on commuting patterns of higher…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Travel, Correlation, Environmental Education
Ares-Pernas, Ana; Carvajal, Carmen Coronado; Gomis Rodríguez, Alfonso; Fernández Ibáñez, María Isabel; Díaz Casás, Vicente; Zaragoza Fernández, María Sonia; Bouza Fernández, María Sonia; Santos Pita, Manuela del Pilar; García Allut, Antonio Domingo; Comesaña Pérez, María Pilar; Caínzos López, María Jesús; Feal Cabezón, Belén; Torres Miño, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to present and describe the main actions carried out in six different faculties and common areas such as cultural and research centres and administrative buildings in the Ferrol campus at the University of A Coruña to achieve the second green flag on a Galician University. Design/methodology/approach: A case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
Zhu, Bifeng; Zhu, Chufan; Dewancker, Bart – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the way to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Through the introduction and learning of a specific case, this paper summarizes the specific process of green campus's development and construction and directly discusses how to achieve the goal of sustainable development. By analyzing…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, College Environment, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment)
