Design and Implementation of Sustainability Programs in Higher Education
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017) | Viewed by 12632
Special Issue Editors
Interests: visual resource management; landscape assessment; cultural ecosystem services; wetland assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: integrated (scientific and social) resource management and risk assessment; supradisciplinary environmental pedagogy (program and course design); environmental science; aquatic ecology
Interests: sustainability education; stakeholder participation; environmental policy; conflict management; watershed planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the theoretical groundings and practical implementation of systems-based sustainability curriculum design and social learning approaches within higher education around the world. The Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) approach (See Reiter et al. 2011 and 2012) is one that stresses 1) systems thinking, 2) holism, 3) supradisciplinarity, 4) revealing complexity, and 5) a systematic approach to learning. Other forms of sustainability courses, curricula and programs have been proposed—mostly from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan—but few have been tested via viability assessment and/or via learning outcomes and skill attainment. This Special Issue will encompass critical foundations, applications, and administrative aspects of the design and implementation of such programs within a variety of institutional contexts.
Prof. Richard C. Smardon
Prof. Michael A. Reiter
Prof. Will J. Focht
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability education
- supradisciplinarity
- curricula and program design
- systems based
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