Higher Education in a Sustainable Society A Case for Mutual Competence Building /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnsen, Hans Chr. Garmann (Editor), Torjesen, Stina (Editor), Ennals, Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance,
• Subjects: Business.; Business ethics.; Political economy.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Sustainable development.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Business and Management.; Business Ethics.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sustainable Development.; Political Economy.; Sociology of Education.

This book addresses the following question: What is a sustainable society, and how can higher education help us to develop toward it? The core argument put forward is that the concept of sustainability reaches much farther than just the direct aspects of environmental threats and carbon emissions. U...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Sustainability in a humanistic and cultural perspective
• Part 2: Sustainability in life science
• Part 3: Sustainability in technology and planning studies
• Part 4: Sustainability and the teaching of management and business development
• Part 5: The sustainable university
• Conclusions.