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Teaching organisational change management for sustainability: designing and delivering a course at the University of Leeds to better prepare future sustainability change agents KU Leuven
A number of universities worldwide have created new courses and degrees or modified existing ones, as a response to the increasing interest by companies to hire sustainability literate graduates. However, many of such courses have been developed with a focus on ‘hard’ technocentric or managerial issues. The examples that have been published in academic journal have tended to be descriptive, and in only a limited number of cases have they been ...
Linking education for sustainable development and corporate sustainability: Developing an organisational change management for corporate sustainability course KU Leuven
With growing interest from companies to hire sustainability literate graduates and universities to prepare future leaders, decision makers, and change agents, there has been a focus in embedding sustainability into higher education institutions’ curricula. A number of programmes and modules have been designed specifically to address sustainability, however many of them have environmental or technocentric foci. This paper presents the process of ...
A new agri-food systems sustainability approach to identify shared transformation pathways towards sustainability Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
Sustainability in anthropocenic times : a didactic proposal for a social and political approach of problems of sustainability = Sustentabilidade em tempos antropocênicos : uma proposta didática de abordagem social e polÃtica dos problemas de sustentabilid Universiteit Gent
COVID-19 reaffirms that we are living out the consequences of the Anthropocene. In terms of education this affirmation has considerable implications: we must overcome the profound divisions between the fields of Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences while at the same time recognizing the political character of educational and scientific practices. Sustainability is an idea that potentially embodies the elements that respond to these two ...
Sustainability Indicators of Iran's Developmental Plans: Application of the Sustainability Compass Theory. Universiteit Hasselt
The main purpose of this study was to analyze Iran’s developmental plans in order to examine and compare their direction and conformity with the sustainable development theory via the compass of sustainability. The approach involves a content analysis used in line with qualitative research methodologies. The results indicated that, in the first developmental plans, there was no direct reference to sustainable development. In the second to fifth ...
Sustainability indicators of Iran's developmental plans : application of the sustainability compass theory Universiteit Gent
Sustainability appraisal tools for soil and groundwater remediation: how is the choice of remediation alternative influenced by different sets of sustainability indicators and tool structures? Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
Sustainability through Design: Stakeholder-based sustainability concepst for fringe-related open space development. Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
When it comes to sustainability, many discussions within architecture and urbanism revolve around the subject of built structures and their eco-effectiveness, or deal with organizing a city in an ecological, economical and spatial qualitative manner. However, it is increasingly recognized that open -unsealed- spaces of all sizes and forms are crucial assets in obtaining and generating equitable forms of sustainability. Therefore, this ...
Sustainability starts with a sustainable business.On consumers expectations towards sustainability and corporate responsibility. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sustainability seems to be the optimistic answer to contemporary 'risk society' (McDonagh 1998: 592), a society facing problems such as global warming, global financial and economic crisis and social exclusion. Because of the promise it shows, sustainability has become a key issue for business and policy trying to meet social, ecological and economic goals. Whereas dealing with today's society's challenges is considered to be the 'core business' ...