Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Corcoran, Peter Blaze (Editor), Wals, Arjen E. J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Environmental management.; Economics.; Management science.; Economics, general.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Environmental Management.; Curriculum Studies.

Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They...