The COVID-19 pandemic and the growing need to train engineers aligned to the sustainable development goals

Anholon, Rosley; Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Silva, Diogo Aparecido Lopes; Filho, Walter Leal; Quelhas, Osvaldo Luíz Gonçalves

doi:10.1108/ijshe-06-2020-0217

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“…We initially held the Goal 8 and Goal 9 themes separate; however, we ultimately combined these as the included manuscripts tended to discuss similar response approaches. We also found one manuscript [30] which spoke more to education of sustainability. This could align to Goal 4, yet the content spoke more specifically to future engineering requirements to be sustainable rather than pedagogical or andragogical practices [37].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In a review of engineering education literature, Anholon et al [30] recognize the need to focus more deeply on education that may support business management capability in engineers. This is an interesting pivot, given the other literature spoke more to challenges of embedding sustainability (particularly environmental: Leal Filho [33]) into curricula.…”

Section: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The focus on business management stemmed from a need to support sustainable business model development in future engineering enterprises, to enable organizations to be stable enough to invest in their business as well as social and environmental opportunities. However, Anholon et al [30] also caution against the over-emphasis of business management skills without careful embedding of sustainability principles; that is, without the latter, students may believe that the financial viability of a business is the only priority, instead of prioritizing sustainable production and consumption of goods and services.…”

Section: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainability in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created cause for rapid innovation in, reimagining of, and pivoting of higher education institutions. Prior to 2020, the global higher education sector began to radically focus their efforts on creating sustainable institutions, and incorporated the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The novel coronavirus pandemic may have changed that. This systematic review examines eight manuscripts, identified through a systematic search strategy on sustainability during the COVID-19 pandemic across 2020–2021. Interestingly, the low volume of manuscripts identified highlights potential learning and teaching risks, as priorities may have shifted during rapid digitalization and emergency remote teaching practices. These manuscripts focused on Goal 4, inclusive and equitable quality education (50%); Goal 8, decent work and economic growth; Goal 9, industry, innovation, and infrastructure (37.5%); and goal enabling through integrating and embedding sustainability into the curriculum (12.5%). The implications of this systematic review highlight a need to rebuild efforts to focus on the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly considering the evolving higher education landscape during COVID-19. While there were still considerable volumes of manuscripts on higher education and sustainability during 2020–2021, the lack of contextualization to current higher education conditions should be of concern for sustainability scholars. This systematic review creates a critical foundation for accelerating our understanding of achieving SDGs in higher education during and beyond the pandemic.

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Section: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Productionmentioning

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Section: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Productionmentioning

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Sustainability in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

2022

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“…As a consequence of the change mentioned above in consumer's consumption behaviors, there have been unprecedented changes to many supply chains. For instance, the sudden increase in medical-related product demand resulted in massive out-of-stocks items (Anholon and Rampasso, 2020). In the agricultural and food industries domain, supply chains were also disrupted by current consumption patterns (Kerr, 2020).…”

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Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly disrupted progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Accordingly, the UN has underscored the need to design short-term responses to halt and reverse the adverse effects of the current COVID-19 crisis. However, some researchers have scrutinized the feasibility and note the potential counterproductivity of particular SDGs in our post-pandemic world. This perspective paper holds a more hopeful outlook and contends that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to prompt efforts to carry out the UN's 2030 Agenda. In this regard, this paper engages the theme of “sustainable consumption” in the context of COVD-19 by discussing two perspectives or bodies of work-supply chain sustainability and post-colonial theory. Supply chain sustainability is discussed as one such promising, though underutilized practice, that could potentially catalyze progress toward SDG 12. Likewise, post-colonial theory, a body of knowledge rarely drawn upon in sustainable consumption and SDG conversations, is presented to call attention to some of the gaps in the orthodoxy of sustainable consumption approaches, practices, and theoretical perspectives. This perspective paper's novelty lies in the fact that it calls attention to the promise of the SDGs and the limits of our current theoretical frameworks related to sustainable consumption. For these reasons, these bodies of work can provoke additional questions and avenues for future research.

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“…Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has exponentially increased sustainability barriers, slowing the SD progress (Ranjbari et al , 2021) and especially affecting people from low and middle income economies (Barbier and Burgess, 2020). The pandemic has resulted in new challenges for education professionals and higher education institutions (HEIs) leaders and requires a quick response, related to financial issues as well as sustainability approaches (Anholon et al , 2020; Leal Filho, 2020a).…”

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Proposal for sustainability action archetypes for higher education institutions

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Purpose Higher education institutions (HEIs) should assume their role as leaders in the search for a sustainable future. Consequently, such institutions need to incorporate sustainability into their activities. However, this needs to be done holistically and not with isolated and independent actions. Therefore, this study aims to develop a structure of sustainability action archetypes to help HEIs holistically incorporate sustainability in their strategies. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review of the literature was conducted focusing on the subject of sustainability in HEIs. Findings A structure of sustainability action archetypes for HEIs was proposed. Further, based on scientific literature, examples of actions were presented within each archetype. Practical implications This study provides HEI administrators and other organizations with a practical structure to enable the systemic incorporation of sustainability objectives and actions into institutional activities. Originality/value This study adapts the tool “sustainable business model archetypes” for a new purpose. This tool was initially developed to classify innovations of sustainable business models.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the growing need to train engineers aligned to the sustainable development goals

Cited by 28 publications

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Sustainability in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

Sustainability in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

Proposal for sustainability action archetypes for higher education institutions

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