Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education
This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of what universities around the world are doing to implement sustainable
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Walter Leal Filho Mark Mifsud Chris Shiel Rudi Pretorius Editors
Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education Volume 3
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World Sustainability Series Series editor Walter Leal Filho, Hamburg, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13384
Walter Leal Filho Mark Mifsud Chris Shiel Rudi Pretorius •
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Editors
Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education Volume 3
123
Editors Walter Leal Filho FTZ-ALS HAW Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Chris Shiel Department of Life and Environmental Science Bournemouth University Poole UK
Mark Mifsud Centre for Environmental Education and Research University of Malta Msida Malta
ISSN 2199-7373 World Sustainability Series ISBN 978-3-319-47894-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47895-1
Rudi Pretorius Department of Geography University of South Africa Science Campus, Florida Johannesburg South Africa
ISSN 2199-7381
(electronic)
ISBN 978-3-319-47895-1
(eBook)
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Preface
We are pleased to introduce the third volume of the “Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education”. This publication, which consists of a set of volumes, introduces many of the papers discussed and presented at the World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2016), which was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, MA, USA in September 2016. The aims of WSSD-U-2016, consistent with the goals of the WSSD-U series, were: i. to provide universities all round the world with an opportunity to display and present their work (i.e. curriculum innov
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