Planning and implementing sustainability in higher education institutions: an overview of the difficulties and potentials
Planning and implementing sustainability in higher education institutions: an overview of the difficulties and potentials
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DOI：
10.1080/13504509.2018.1461707
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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5.6
通讯作者：
Brandli, L. L.
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作者：
Filho, W. Leal;Pallant, E.;Brandli, L. L.
可持续发展规划被认为是一个重要因素，使高等教育机构能够确定其目标，并致力于在各级采取具体行动和措施，以实现可持续性。然而，很少有研究探讨规划在多大程度上可以支持高等教育机构评估其业绩并确定是否达到了既定目标。需要弥补这一研究空白，以便更好地了解规划如何有助于促进可持续发展的三个组成部分-高等教育中的经济发展、社会发展和环境保护-的融合。本文探讨了高等教育可持续发展规划面临的挑战，并概述了可能有助于提高高等教育机构可持续发展教育工作的经验教训。其主要成果之一是，许多大学希望追求可持续发展，但由于缺乏机构支持和规划以及对基于问题的学习等方法重视不够，这些努力受到阻碍。从事这一领域的大学不得不面临许多问题，从资源有限到缺乏训练有素的工作人员。因此，实现可持续性的综合办法变得难以实施。最后，本文指出，主流发展提供的许多机会，如联合国宣言“我们想要的世界”或联合国可持续发展目标，没有得到充分利用。
Planning in sustainable development is believed to be an important element in allowing higher education institutions to set their goals and to commit themselves towards undertaking concrete actions and measures at all levels in order to implement sustainability. Yet, there is a paucity of research that has looked at the extent to which planning can support institutions of higher education to assess their performances and to determine whether the set aims have been met. This research gap needs to be met to allow a better understanding of how planning can help to promote the integration of the three components of sustainable development - economic development, social development and environmental protection in higher education. This paper explores the challenges for planning the sustainable development in higher education, also outlining the potentials lessons learned that could assist in improving Education for Sustainable Development efforts in Higher Education Institutions. Among its main results are the fact that many universities wish to pursue sustainable development, but their efforts are hindered by lack of institutional support and planning and limited emphasis on approaches, such as problem-based learning. The universities that are engaged in the field have to face many problems, varying from limited resources to lack of trained staff. As a result, integrated approaches to sustainability become difficult to implement. Finally, the paper has identified the fact that many opportunities offered mainstream developments, such as the UN Declaration The World we Want' or the UN Sustainable Development Goals are not being put to full use.