Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, P
Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically
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Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice
Edited by
Peter Blaze Corcoran Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, U.S.A. and
Arjen E.J. Wals Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ix
Foreword by Richard M. Clugston
xiii
Preface
xv
Acknowledgements
Part One: Problematics 1.
The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction Peter Blaze Corcoran & Arjen E.J. Wals
3
2.
The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education Tarah Wright
7
3.
Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse Richard Bawden
21
4.
Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability John Huckle
33
5.
Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning Stephen Sterling
49
6.
Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications Michael Shriberg
71
7.
The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis Peter Blaze Corcoran & Arjen E.J. Wals
87
Part Two: Promise 8.
The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction Arjen E.J. Wals & Peter Blaze Corcoran v
91
vi
P. B. CORCORAN & A.J.E. WALS
Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education Daniella Tilbury
97
10. The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education Julian Agyeman & Craig Crouch
113
11. Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology Harold Glasser
131
12. The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Sustainability in Higher Education Annette Gough
149
13. Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision Edmund O’Sullivan
163
14. Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education Niels Röling
181
15. Living Sustainably through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change James Pittman
199
16. Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education Geertje Appel, Irene Dankelman & Kirsten Kuipers
213
17. The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis Arjen E.J. Wals & Peter Blaze Corcoran
223
9.
Part Three: Practice 18. The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction Kim Walker, Arjen E.J. Wals & Peter Blaze Corcoran
229
19. Education and Sustain
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