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Sustainability on University Campuses: Learning, Skills Building and Best Practices

  • Highly interdisciplinary, covering the social sciences, economics, business, education and the environmental sciences
  • Comprehensively describes campus greening initiatives
  • Provides universities with a sound basis for promoting sustainability efforts on campus

Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Institutional Practices and Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Involving Students in Implementing a Campus Culture of Sustainability

      • Madhavi Venkatesan, Julia Crooijmans
      Pages 59-71
    3. University of São Paulo Environmental Policy: Master Plan and Pilot Projects for Pirassununga and Ribeirão Preto Campuses

      • Patrícia Faga Iglecias Lemos, Fernanda da Rocha Brando, Tamara Maria Gomes
      Pages 73-90
    4. The Brazilian Educational System: An Analysis of a Hypothetical Full Shift to Distance Teaching

      • José Hugo de Oliveira, Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Almeida
      Pages 131-145
    5. Green Campus and Environmental Preservation on a Brazilian University

      • Evanisa Fátima Reginato Quevedo Melo, Marcos Antonio Leite Frandoloso, Ricardo Henryque Reginato Quevedo Melo
      Pages 191-208
  3. Initiatives, Projects and Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
    2. National Sustainability Transitions and the Role of University Campuses: Ireland as a Case Study

      • William Horan, Rachel Shawe, Richard Moles, Bernadette O’Regan
      Pages 255-270

About this book

The implementation of sustainability initiatives on campuses is an essential component of promoting sustainability in the higher education context. In addition to reflecting an awareness of environmental issues, campus programmes demonstrate how seriously universities take sustainability at the institutional level.


There is a lack of truly interdisciplinary publications that comprehensively address the issue of campus greening, and there is an even greater need for publications that do so at a truly international level. This book meets these needs. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second Symposium on Sustainability in University Campuses” (SSUC-2018), which was jointly organised by the University of Florence (Italy), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).


The book showcases examples of campus-based research and teaching projects, regenerative campus design, low-carbon and zero-carbon buildings, waste prevention, and resilient transport, among others. Ultimately, it demonstrates the role of campuses as platforms for transformative social learning and research, and explores the means by which university campuses can be made more sustainable.


The aims of this publication are as follows:


• to provide universities with essential information on campus greening and sustainable campus development initiatives from around the world;


• to share ideas and lessons learned in the course of research, teaching and projects on campus greening and design, especially successful initiatives and good practice; and


• to introduce methodological approaches and projects intended to integrate the topic of sustainable development in campus design and operations.


This book gathers contributions from researchers and practitioners in the field of campus greening and sustainable development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to the arts, administration and the environment, and hailing from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European School of Sustainability Science and Research, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Ugo Bardi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainability on University Campuses: Learning, Skills Building and Best Practices

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Ugo Bardi

  • Series Title: World Sustainability Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15864-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15863-7Published: 21 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15866-8Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15864-4Published: 03 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2199-7373

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 580

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Environmental Science and Engineering

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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