UID:
almafu_9959232214002883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 327 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-262-26771-3
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1-4175-6078-9
Series Statement:
Urban and industrial environments
Content:
Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus.Environmental awareness on college and university campuses began with the celebratory consciousness-raising of Earth Day, 1970. Since then environmental action on campus has been both global (in research and policy formation) and local (in efforts to make specific environmental improvements on campuses). The stories in this book show that achieving environmental sustainability is not a matter of applying the formulas of risk management or engineering technology but part of what the editors call "the messy reality of participatory engagement in cultural transformation."In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff, and community partners, whether hesitant or committed, knowledgeable or newcomer. Scholars and activists have recognized the crucial role that higher education can play in the sustainability effort, and each chapter in the book is full of ideas about how to get started, revitalize efforts, and overcome roadblocks. Human and at times joyful, these stories illustrate many forms of leadership, in new courses and faculty development, green buildings and administrative policies, student programs, residential life, and collaborations with local communities.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Laying the cornerstones --
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Process and practice: creating the sustainable university /
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The green task force: facing the challenges to environmental stewardship at a small liberal arts college /
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No longer waiting for someone else to do it: a tale of reluctant leadership /
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Redesigning the curriculum /
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Transdisciplinary shared learning /
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Place as the nexus of a sustainable future : a course for all of us /
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Building political acceptance for sustainability : degree requirements for all graduates /
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Building buildings, building learning communities --
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Can educational institutions learn? The creation of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College /
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The development of Stanford University's guidelines for sustainable buildings : a student perspective /
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Engaging communities, engaging students --
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Maintaining a college-community ecotourism project: faculty initiative, institutional vision, student participation, and community partnerships /
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Teaching for change : the leadership in environmental education partnership /
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Restoring natural landscapes : from ideals to action /
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Building system-wide commitment --
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South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative /
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Challenges of greening a decentralized campus: making the connection to health /
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Sustaining sustainability : lessons from Ramapo College /
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Cultivating a shared environmental vision at Middlebury College /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-02560-4
Language:
English
