Sustainability funding in higher education: a literature-based review

Lima, Carlos Rogério Montenegro de; Soares, Thiago Coelho; Lima, Maurício Andrade de; Veras, Manoela Oliveira; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade

doi:10.1108/ijshe-07-2019-0229

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“…This research uses the multidimensional scaling method (MDS) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), as suggested by Montenegro de Lima et al (2020). Among the different bibliometric research methods, for the purpose of this study, the coupling of subjects to identify trends in publications and the growth of knowledge on the topic of CF in universities stands out well.…”

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Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus

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Dutra

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Purpose Reducing our carbon footprint (CF) or decarbonizing is a sustainable development goal. Although there has been an increase in research on this topic, little is known about the status of CF research within universities. The purpose of this paper is to identify the initiatives implemented in universities aimed at reducing CF in their efforts toward creating a Green Campus. Design/methodology/approach Using a bibliometric method, the status of this field of research was examined for the purpose of identifying the main publications and the most central researchers in terms of productivity and citations. Also, by using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the regions of the world with the most active research, as well as the direction of research, were identified. Findings The survey identified the region that published the most on the subject in the past 10 years, as well as the most relevant authors in the publications. Through this factor analysis, it was possible to identify, among the 105 publications analyzed, four distinct factors (clusters) with different thematic strands that appear to define a difference between the related studies on this topic. These factors were identified as campus management: supply and consumption operations; greenhouse gases emissions assessment: CF calculation; university air travel; sustainable food systems. The changes in people’s attitudes and in the use of university spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to the CF was also noted as a point that can be investigated in future research. As well as the reflection of the reduction in academic air travel and the “forced” occurrence of online events during the same period. Originality/value The paper aims to innovate by applying the multidimensional scaling method and EFA to scientific articles on the topic of decarbonizing campuses and identifying the clusters that constitute this field of study. The research seeks to contribute to current metric knowledge on the topic and to the creation of a specific research agenda.

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Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus

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“…Other previous studies (Baldridge, 1983;Cohen and March, 1974;Weick, 1976;Millet, 1962) already identified the university as an atypical and paradoxically complex organization: ambiguous objectives, centered on the work of professionals, based on problematic technology, operates products difficult to measure, it lives with decision-making processes and forms of management that mix bureaucratic, political, collegiate and anarchic aspects, in addition to the vulnerability of the environment.…”

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Promoting sustainable development in higher education institutions: the use of the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system in support of green marketing

Fuchs

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Purpose Sustainability is understood as a complex and integrating area, involving the most diverse areas and fields of knowledge. Because of the innumerable socio-environmental challenges in the current scenario, a sustainable development that finds the necessary changes and advances for communities, industry and the various stakeholders involved is required. In this process of promoting sustainable development, universities stand out for being institutions capable of taking an analytical and questioning look at the directions of the society in which they are inserted and not just helping them to pursue them, serving as a model and living laboratory for the implementation of greener practices in cities. One of the actions that contributes to the consolidation process of a more sustainable university and the development of the green campus is the use of green marketing, understood as a set of all the practices that involve conventional marketing, focused on the search to reduce the negative impact or promote positive effects on the relationship between the institution and the environment. This paper aims, based on the balanced scorecard (BSC), to propose a strategic management tool as support for green marketing strategies, thus promoting, more quickly, the promotion of sustainable development in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach Four universities were chosen, from the literature, in terms of best practices for sustainable development, where the main dimensions used by green marketing were mapped. Based on them, the BSC structure was adapted to enhance its strategies. Findings To achieve the objective of this work, this paper proposed an adaptation of the original BSC for better management of green marketing strategies for universities, based on four dimensions: community members, university members, product and strategy. Originality/value The main contribution of this paper is to propose a BSC as a strategic management system focused on the green marketing of universities to accelerate the promotion of sustainable development in HEIs.

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“…"pure". This presupposes the formation of a single global "educational space", with uniform standards for training specialists, in which universities will try to acquire and maintain their "competitive advantages": education is also a product that needs to be sold to the consumer, and the market price of which depends on the market demand for trained specialists (of particular importance are the issues related to the financing of science and education and the "justification of costs" [26]: technicalization as a specialization and "practical orientation" does not leave room for what was previously called "education of humanity"; moreover, we have a completely different "coordinate system" (or "conceptual framework"): "humanity" as the goal of romantic (and classical) education is the duty, not profit or "competitive advantage" -and it is outside the market. In the same vein is the idea of "continuing education": to the extent that capital is concerned, it must grow, "become obsolete" from time to time, and continually change structurally in line with market conditions.…”

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Representing “University Education” in the Horizon of the Concept of Sustainable Development and Security Discourse

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The relevance of linking the concept of sustainable development and the security discourse reveals the possibility of believing that education is a prerequisite for ensuring that “sustainable development” goals become a reality. The university has a twofold task: first, to produce knowledge that meets the demands of our time, i.e. technical knowledge, and second, to form human capital, to train specialists capable of the practical application of instrumental knowledge. The initial orientation of the concept of “sustainable development” towards a global perspective: the representation of reality in an economic paradigm, i.e., totally determined by the “logic of capital”, “monocausal economic logic”, determines the criteria by which the quality of human capital, its price, and efficiency of production of a standardized product are evaluated, the production of which is undertaken by the university-corporation that has replaced the classical “university of reason”, whose ontic foundations - the “Hegelian science”, the romantic “education of humanity” - are no longer valid in what is called modernity. The article demonstrates how modernity, constituted concerning a certain self-representation of the New European subject and presented in the liberal economic paradigm, predetermines both the goal-setting in determined by its representation of the development and the content and methods of the reform of the university. It is concluded that “sustainable development”, “security” and “university-corporation” are essentially connected with the representation of reality in the liberal version of the economic paradigm.

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Sustainability funding in higher education: a literature-based review

Cited by 28 publications

References 83 publications

Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus

Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus

Promoting sustainable development in higher education institutions: the use of the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system in support of green marketing

Representing “University Education” in the Horizon of the Concept of Sustainable Development and Security Discourse

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