Explorations on the University's role in society for sustainable development through a systems transition approach. Case-study of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Explorations on the University's role in society for sustainable development through a systems transition approach. Case-study of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
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通过系统转型方法探索大学在社会可持续发展中的作用。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2008.11.006
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
M. D. Mingo
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作者：
D. Ferrer;H. Buckland;M. D. Mingo
关注可持续性挑战，越来越多的大学正在重新定义其核心战略，以适应利益相关者的真实的社会需求和期望。除了将可持续性纳入大学的内部活动（课程，研究，运营等），挑战似乎是将大学与社会的可持续发展道路结合起来。在过去的10年中，加泰罗尼亚技术大学（UPC）通过总体战略计划应对了这一挑战。最新的战略，UPC 2015年可持续发展计划，采用了不同的重点，这是通过参与式方法设计的，涉及许多内部和外部利益相关者。这项工作的目的是使用一个概念框架的基础上系统的过渡，以评估系统的变化潜力的大学战略，在这种情况下，UPC的可持续发展战略。本文的主要目标是：目前的可持续发展战略参与式设计过程及其成果在UPC;分析战略变化的潜力，通过一个新的过渡/系统更新的方法，建议;并将其与UPC以前的环境战略;工作的结论是，系统过渡的潜力是目前较高的新战略，并讨论了解释这一发现的要素。
Focusing on the sustainability challenge, a growing number of Universities are redefining their core strategies in order to adapt to the real social needs and expectations of their stakeholders. Beyond integrating sustainability into the University's internal activities (curriculum, research, operations, etc.), the challenge seems to be integrating the University with the sustainable development paths of society. For the last 10 years the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has tackled this challenge through an overarching strategic plan. The latest strategy, UPC Sustainable Plan 2015 has adopted a different focus, which was designed through a participatory approach, involving many internal and external stakeholders. This work aims to use a conceptual framework based on systems transitions to assess the systems change potential of a University strategy, in this case, the sustainability strategy of UPC. The main objectives of this paper are: to present the sustainability strategy participatory design process and its outcomes at UPC; to analyse the strategy change potential through a new transition/systems renewal method that is proposed; and to compare it with the UPCs previous environmental strategy; The work concludes that the systems transition potential is currently higher with the new strategy and discusses the elements that explain this finding.