The importance of international conferences on sustainable development as higher education institutions' strategies to promote sustainability: A case study in Brazil
The importance of international conferences on sustainable development as higher education institutions' strategies to promote sustainability: A case study in Brazil
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.042
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发表时间：
2018-01-10
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11.1
通讯作者：
Ceci, Flavio
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作者：
Berchin, Issa Ibrahim;Sima, Mihaela;Ceci, Flavio
本文分析了国际会议对高等教育机构促进可持续发展的意义。该文件已进行了详细的审查，高等院校的战略，以促进可持续发展的科学文献，从而确定了八个高等院校的战略，这些机构可以采取变得更加可持续发展（制定一个机构议程，促进研究，改善教学，加强绿色校园运营，刺激社区外展，并促进知识传播）。基于这一审查，并侧重于知识传播，特别是学术活动（会议，研讨会和讲习班），选择了69个关于可持续发展的国际学术会议进行分析（2012年至2016年）。从这些会议21证明适合文本挖掘分析由于数据的可用性-即在线发表的文章。这些文章被组织并提交给搭配提取过程，根据它们在文章中的频率为每个会议创建一个重要术语列表。此外，使用Google趋势工具测试了这些术语的相关性，以证明他们的Google搜索频率。最后，选择了两个会议进行更深入的分析，探讨其结果和贡献（REGSA和LINKS会议），以促进可持续性。本文的主要结果概述了国际会议已成为高等院校的重要战略，以促进各种问题的可持续性，通过分享知识，经验，项目，倡议和方法。可以注意到，这些活动具有高度的跨学科和多学科性质，这体现在所倡导的主题和参与的众多方面，而且人们越来越有兴趣让利益攸关方积极参与讨论和促进可持续性和可持续发展。(C)2017爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
This paper analyzes the significance of international conferences for higher education institutions (HEIs)' promotion of sustainability. The paper has undertaken a detailed review of the scientific literature on strategies of HEIs to promote sustainability, hence identifying eight HEIs strategies that these institutions can adopt to become more sustainable (developing an Institutional Agenda, promoting Research, improving Teaching, enhancing green Campus Operations, stimulating community Outreach, and promoting Knowledge Dissemination). Based on this review, and focusing on knowledge dissemination, particularly on the academic events (conferences, seminars and workshops), 69 international academic conferences on sustainability were selected for analysis (from 2012 to 2016). From these conferences 21 proved suitable for a text mining analysis due to the data availability - i.e. articles published online. These articles were organized and submitted to the Collocations Extraction process, creating a list of important terms for each conference, based on their frequency in the articles. Furthermore, the relevance of these terms was tested using the Google Trends tool, to evidence the frequency of their Google searching. Finally, two conferences were selected for a more in-depth analysis, exploring their results and contributions (REGSA and LINKS conferences) to promote sustainability. The main results of the paper outline that international conferences have become important HEIs' strategies to promote various issues of sustainability, through sharing knowledge, experiences, projects, initiatives and methods. It can be noticed a high interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary character of these events, illustrated by the multitude of promoted topics and participation, but also an increasing interest to actively involve stakeholders in discussing and promoting sustainability and sustainable development. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.