What does environmentally sustainable higher education institution mean?

Freidenfelds, Davis; Kalnins, Silvija Nora; Gusca, Julija

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2018.07.031

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“…As for other EN-related issues, their comparison was inconclusive. The result is consistent with Freidenfelds et al [44], who highlighted energy, water, transport, waste, behavior, and management to be significant indicators towards a green university. It is also true in our study that there was no significant difference in the weighting results among Transport (EN3), Energy conservation and efficiency (EN6), and Water (EN10), indicating their equal importance.…”

Section: Figure 1 Weighting Results On Developed Sustainability Dimensions and Issues By Expertssupporting

confidence: 91%

Investigating the Critical Issues for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education Institutes in Thailand

Tabucanon¹,

Sahavacharin²,

Rathviboon³

et al. 2021

IJSDP

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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), by and large, have increasingly committed to integrate sustainable development (SD) into their policies, practices, and programs. Recently, there have been several sustainability assessment tools specifically developed for HEIs. Many HEIs, especially small-to-middle sized HEIs in Thailand, are planning to enhance SD but are reluctant due to resource requirements. This study was conducted to investigate important sustainability implementation issues, including the effect of HEI sizes and UI GreenMetric participation. A weighting approach on sustainability dimensions and issues was utilized, and HEI’s sustainability reports and official websites were reviewed to evaluate their sustainability performance of large-, middle-, and small-sized HEIs as well as UI GreenMetric participants and non-participants in Thailand. The findings reveal that the issues of the sustainability-integrated vision and strategy, safety and well-being, waste, and the SD-enhancing educational system were fundamentally critical for HEI sustainability. Moreover, most of the large-sized HEIs in Thailand that participated in UI GreenMetric were evaluated to have higher sustainability performance than others, apparently in administration, environment, and education/research dimensions. This study supports the necessity for a sustainability assessment tool for HEIs.

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Section: Figure 1 Weighting Results On Developed Sustainability Dimensions and Issues By Expertssupporting

confidence: 91%

Investigating the Critical Issues for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education Institutes in Thailand

Tabucanon¹,

Sahavacharin²,

Rathviboon³

et al. 2021

IJSDP

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“…Eco-innovation has therefore demonstrated its ability to drive firms' transition towards sustainable development [53,54]. This is perhaps due to the nature of eco-innovation-defined as innovation that seeks to improve environmental sustainability [55]. By improving environmental sustainability, eco-innovations are contributing towards sustainable development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Big Data Analytics Capabilities and Eco-Innovation: A Study of Energy Companies

Munodawafa

Johl

2019

Sustainability

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Increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the past decades have created concerns about the environment. To stymie global warming and the deterioration of the natural environment, global CO2 emissions need to reach approximately 1.3 tons per capita by 2050. However, in Malaysia, CO2 output per capita—driven by fossil fuel consumption and energy production—is expected to reach approximately 12.1 tons by the year 2020. GHG mitigation strategies are needed to address these challenges. Cleaner production, through eco-innovation, has the potential to arrest CO2 emissions and buttress sustainable development. However, the cleaner production process has been hampered by lack of complete data to support decision making. Therefore, using the resource-based view, a preliminary study consisting of energy and utility firms is undertaken to understand the impact of big data analytics towards eco-innovation. Linear regression through SPSS Version 24 reveals that big data analytics could become a strong predictor of eco-innovation. This paper concludes that information and data are key inputs, and big data technology provides firms the opportunity to obtain information, which could influence its production process—and possibly help arrest increasing CO2 emissions.

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“…An internal process through adoption of environmental management strategies, providing and understanding of environmental issues and sustainable development in universities can be introduced [34].…”

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Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Pubule

Kalnbaļķite

Teirumnieka

et al. 2019

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.

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What does environmentally sustainable higher education institution mean?

Cited by 46 publications

References 13 publications

Investigating the Critical Issues for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education Institutes in Thailand

Investigating the Critical Issues for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education Institutes in Thailand

Big Data Analytics Capabilities and Eco-Innovation: A Study of Energy Companies

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

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