Critical review of a global campus sustainability ranking: GreenMetric

Lauder, Allan F.; Sari, Riri Fitri; Suwartha, Nyoman; Tjahjono, Gunawan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.02.080

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“…GM tool was also overall well classified, besides worst classification in terms of Participation and Progress Over Time criteria but has been also widely used since is free, easy to fill and good as a benchmark between universities worldwide, as stressed by many other authors (e.g., [16,49,74]). As Lauder et al [49] stressed under scientific analysis, no ranking can be free from at least some limitations, resulting in unavoidable practical considerations, such as the need for the ranking to be at a level of complexity that can appeal to a wide audience. In addition, Sonetti et al [31] mentioned one of the major weakness of GM is the use of generic quantitative indicators which does not underpin local dimensions as well as lack of the social dimension.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Earlier studies that reviewed these kinds of tools highlighted that STARS, AISHE and SAQ have a higher incidence on the percentage of indicators for the Governance (in accordance with reference [25]) and Operations, as highlighted by Reference [28] dimensions. However, STARS has the widest coverage across all indicators, capturing a little of all areas compared, for example, with AISHE and SAQ [as also defended by other authors [24,28], SRC (in accordance with Shi and Lai [77]) or with GM [also as highlighted by Lauder et al [49]. In addition, as authors like Berzosa et al [32] claimed "the main weaknesses of SAQ are those related with open-ended questions, not establishing a final score so it is difficult to apply it as a tracking tool.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking in Higher Education Institutions—A Critical Reflection

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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a crucial role in implementing practices for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This implementation should be done in different dimensions according to a holistic and whole-school approach. Different tools have been adapted and developed to assess this integrated approach. The aim of this research is to critically reflect the existing tools to assess and benchmark ESD implementation and to discuss their applicability in two case studies. Two public Universities in Southern Europe, with headquarters in the capitals of Portugal and Spain were selected to assess and compare the integration of ESD according to a whole-school approach-Universidade Aberta in Portugal and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. After a critical analysis of the existing tools based on literature review and a list of criteria classified by experts, two tools were selected to be applied in the case studies. The online Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System Reporting Tool was used in Universidade Aberta and Green Metrics tool was used in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The tools were complemented with focus group with key-actors in both universities. The results obtained allowed to identify the need to define a common objective of the assessment tools and limitations they still have. The tools need improvements on their development namely to integrate the external impact of Higher Education Institutions on sustainability, to integrate participatory processes and to assess non-traditional aspects of sustainability. This research hopes to contribute to the continuous research about the usefulness of these assessment and benchmarking tools as drivers to HEIs improve their sustainability performance and their role as agents of changes.

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Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking in Higher Education Institutions—A Critical Reflection

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“…They are highly expected to be a role model on sustainable development (León-Fernández and Domínguez-Vilches 2015). Nonetheless, universities can be considered as small cities due to their community's size which have an impact on the environment around the campuses (Lauder et al 2015). For academic institutions, the Stockholm Declaration of 1972 addressed the Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE).…”

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Green initiative in Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand

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Parinyakulset

2018

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) has participated in the Universitas Indonesia (UI) GreenMetric World University Rankings since 2013. It attempts to pursue campus sustainability programs and policies. The rankings is broadly based on the frameworks of environment, economy, and equity. The measurement criteria are divided into six categories with different point weighting i.e. setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation, and education. These criteria heavily and directly involve the tasks and responsibilities of SUT's the Division of Buildings and Ground. A lot of environmental challenges in civil engineering and infrastructure works need to be achieved. The results of this year self-assessment show that although the university is in the developing stage, it can preserve both natural and planted forests more than 90%. It takes seriously role in green initiative by contributing 30% of total budget on sustainable efforts each year. It receives four national awards in the recognition of energy conservation initiative for green buildings. The university establishes the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plant (ISWM Plant) based on mechanical and biological treatment (MBT) which turns general wastes into valuable and sellable refuse-derived fuel (RDF). Moreover, these sustainable movements are in the continuous improvement process.

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“…Living labs monitoring infrastructure provide an appropriate way for answering energy data queries while displaying all the necessary information for performance self-assessment and external reporting purposes [24]. There is, however, a gap between these energy performances oriented experiences and the international ranking systems for green labeling of campuses which are not based on performance indicators but relying on ranges of total energy consumption [25].…”

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Explorative Multidimensional Analysis for Energy Efficiency: DataViz versus Clustering Algorithms

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Gambino

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Energies

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Abstract:We propose a simple tool to help the energy management of a large building stock defining clusters of buildings with the same function, setting alert thresholds for each cluster, and easily recognizing outliers. The objective is to enable a building management system to be used for detection of abnormal energy use. We start reviewing energy performance indicators, and how they feed into data visualization (DataViz) tools for a large building stock, especially for university campuses. After a brief presentation of the University of Turin's building stock which represents our case study, we perform an explorative analysis based on the Multidimensional Detective approach by Inselberg, using the Scatter Plot Matrix and the Parallel Coordinates methods. The k-means clustering algorithm is then applied on the same dataset to test the hypotheses made during the explorative analysis. Our results show that DataViz techniques provide quick and user-friendly solutions for the energy management of a large stock of buildings. In particular, they help identifying clusters of buildings and outliers and setting alert thresholds for various Energy Efficiency Indices.

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Critical review of a global campus sustainability ranking: GreenMetric

Cited by 141 publications

References 25 publications

Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking in Higher Education Institutions—A Critical Reflection

Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking in Higher Education Institutions—A Critical Reflection

Green initiative in Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand

Explorative Multidimensional Analysis for Energy Efficiency: DataViz versus Clustering Algorithms

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