... and thereby train sustainability minded future designers. Design/methodology/approach Baseline and culminating sustainability concept mapping assessments and reflective surveys were administered to 70 students enrolled in a general ecology and design-centric Ecology for Architects course. Correlation...

... to advance not merely social, cultural and intellectual capital but state capital (as it might be termed). Engagement was a matter of locking horns with knowledge, fearlessly pursuing truth, independently of the state, even whilst acting in the service of the state. Responsibility Ecology...

.... If the present paper contributes to positioning plants as an essential element in sustainability education and practice, it will have met its objective. Biology Education Environment Ecology Conservation Biodiversity Perception Ethics Culture Globalisation Interdisciplinary UN SDGs...

... framework. Findings The sustainability framework relates basic concepts and assumptions within the ecocentric, ecological modernization and neoclassical paradigms to organizational practice and behavior. For the most part, the MBA students have only been exposed to neoclassical economic thinking within...

...Kathleen Kevany; Donald Huisingh; Francisco J. Lozano García; Gemma Cervantes Purpose To describe a way of teaching industrial ecology (IE) and to show some tools that may help for the IE teaching. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the development of lectures, practical lessons...

... the industrial management tool of environmental auditing to make it applicable to the university setting. From its tentative but groundbreaking beginning, the campus environmental audit has played an important role in the “campus ecology” movement, with notable publications ensuing over the following decade...

...; an environmental impact assessment based on ecological footprinting and a social and economic impact assessment. The college has a number of unsustainable features. Its ecological footprint is equivalent to 296 ha and some 866 tonnes of CO₂ were emitted from the site over a one‐year period. The social...

...Cecilia Lundholm Describes how first‐year civil engineering students interpreted the content and structure of an ecology course. Students’ learning processes were analysed from an intentional perspective, i.e. a perspective that takes into account the students’ educational aims and conceptions...

... Sustainable development Land Ecology In the fall of 2001 a graduate level planning class was offered by the City and Regional Planning Department at The Ohio State University entitled “Introduction to sustainable development: envisioning an EcoCity Columbus.” The class had previously been offered...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Conservation Ecology Social sciences Making Waves: Integrating Coastal Conservation and Development W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown and Emma L. TompkinsEarthscanLondon 2002176 pp.ISBN 1853839124£17.95 Coastal zones...

... environmental impacts at the University of Kansas. Drawing on existing knowledge of campus planning and campus ecology, the article presents a tentative framework for assessing issues that can affect the structure of a campus environmental planning class, discusses the structure of the University of Kansas...

... and institutional leaders, a “spark” to move environmental issues onto the campus agenda, and tailoring advocacy approaches to stakeholder interests. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Ecology Students Environmental management Higher education “Every day is Earth Day at the University of Michigan...

...) was developed and a Campus Ecology grant provided support for this student‐led effort. Nestboxes were erected along a newly constructed nature trail that passes through the campus and a local park. Native trees were planted along the trail. Bluebirds (Sialia sialis), tree swallows (Tachycineta...

... Ecology The age‐old adage of “What gets measured, gets done” is beginning to be applied to sustainability efforts in higher education. The inherent ambiguities involved in defining sustainability and the complexities of applying the concept to diverse institutional settings have thwarted...

... conflicting values. The problem of sustainability is essentially one of balance. We recognize, as stated by Boyden and Dovers, that: The present pattern of increasing intensity of resource and energy use and of waste production in high‐energy societies is not sustainable ecologically...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Computers Ecology National Cultures Globalization Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability C.A. Bowers The University of Georgia PressAthes, GANovember...

...” (Illich, 1971, p. 38). In other words, if we do not, at the same time, do everything we can to transform our political, economic and social systems into more sustainable structures, we might as well forget about the educational part. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Higher education Ecology Policy...

... such as Industrial Ecology, Zero‐emissions, Factor 4 and Factor 10, etc., similar in objectives to the more intensive topics. Cleaner Production, as stated by UNEP, is the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products and services, so as to increase...

... to concrete on‐the‐ground decision making within the region. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Regional development Sustainable development Ecology Austria The discussion about sustainable development in Austria is to some extent different from that in other European countries. In order...

...Biology Education Software WWW Higher Education Ecology This Web site provides a list of software for teaching biology (includes ecology and environmental decision making programs) at the college level, including short descriptions and reviews of each package. ...