Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 14, Issue 4

Welcome to another issue of IJSHE. Readers will see on this issue a further set of papers on sustainability at universities, which is characterized by a strong international focus.

On this editorial, I would like to present readers with the report “Solutions for improved human well-being”, the 2011-2012 report produced by IISD(available at: www.iisd.org/pdf/2012/financials_2012_en.pdf). The document highlights the institute’s efforts over the past two years to meet the core challenge of its strategic plan – to find solutions through transformative change that improve human well-being. The strategic plan defines 12 themes encompassing 28 goals to realign macroeconomic policies, management of ecological and social systems, and global environmental governance with sustainability.

The annual report contains a series of articles on the work done to date toward achieving selected goals of our strategic plan. In the context of finding solutions for improved human well-being, the report celebrates the progress made toward achieving the millennium development goal related to halving by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Since this journal is about sustainability in higher education and bearing in mind that our ultimate aim is to foster human well-being, this report provide an interesting source of information, and perhaps even inspiration.

Enjoy your reading!

Walter Leal Filho