Part 1. Transformative Change from Outside to Inside the Academy -- 1. Universities as Agents of Change: Green Academy to Ecological University -- 2. Collective Ambition for Global Action: Role for the Knowledge Sector -- 3. Framing a University Research and Innovation Strategy around the SDGs -- 4. Experiencing Sustainability: Developing Students' Global Leadership Skills -- 5. Transformative Learning, Community and Leadership for Sustainability Action -- 6. Pedagogical Approaches to the SDGs in Fragile Contexts -- 7. Nigerian Universities and Achievement of the SDGs -- 8. Universities and Green Innovations: Entrepreneurship in Uganda -- 9. Driving Sustainability at the University of Hong Kong -- 10. Living Lab: Newton Smart Campus -- 11. Sustainability Member Associations for Universities -- Part 2. Higher Education as a Driver of Sustainability beyond the Institution: Transformation from Inside to Outside the Academy -- 12. Sustainability Transformations at McGill -- 13. Accelerating Response to a Changing Climate: Solutions across Scales -- 14. University Leadership and Governance Enabling Sustainability and the SDGs -- 15. University-City Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Transformations -- 16. Transformational Change: Lessons from the University of Edinburgh -- 17. SISSTEM: Sustainable Development on the Small Island State of Aruba -- 18. Global Challenges and Opportunities for African Universities -- 19. University-Community Partnership in Nepal -- 20. Transformative Change for Sustainability: The Wellington Plus Programme -- 21. Student Involvement in Environmental Management Activities -- 22. Leveraging Excellence to Support Sustainable Development in Africa -- 23. A University's Transformational Change Agenda -- 24. Role of Anchor Institutions towards Community Development -- Conclusion -- Index.
Summary:
This Handbook illustrates that universities per se and higher education in general are essential to catalyze and action the transformative change needed for sustainability and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. Part One shows how sustainability can be adopted as a driver of change within higher education institutions (HEIs), as they react and respond to influencing factors outside the academy. Part Two examines how a university working with and for sustainability can influence, effect and amplify change beyond the institution, working with and through others. International contributors explore regional, national and international perspectives, presenting a variety of critically assessed accounts case studies that reflect different local and national contexts, institutional archetypes and academic missions. Frameworks of sustainability-led transformation are illustrated at the level of the institution (executive/administrative), organization, culture, place-based (anchor) and student in various countries including Aruba, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Uganda, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The book concludes with a manifesto for change and a call to action. It identifies that the sustainability journey of a HEI is influenced by context and place, with mission, leadership and strategy playing a vital role and change agency by students a key ingredient. Recognizing the patience and resolve to effect change, communication, dialogue and inclusion were central to community building and partnership.
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