Universities and the sustainable development future : evaluating higher-education contributions to the 2030 agenda
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Universities and the sustainable development future : evaluating higher-education contributions to the 2030 agenda
(Earthscan from Routledge)
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited.
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future offers institutions of higher learning around the world practical guidelines that can be applied contextually to produce credible evidence regarding the outcome and impact of their teaching, research, and transnational-partnering activities. Drawing on innovative applications of lessons from experience with international-development cooperation, this book demonstrates the utility of a flexible framework that will inspire substantial improvements in the ways universities evaluate and improve their sustainable-development undertakings aimed at promoting Agenda 2030.
This book promotes an inclusive evaluation framework that will allow universities to illuminate sustainable-development outcomes, and it provides a cutting-edge resource for students, scholars, and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development, climate change, and evaluation challenges.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I The Role of Today's Universities in Advancing Sustainable Development
Chapter 1: Conceptual Framework for Understanding University Engagement in Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Contemporary Sustainability Expectations and Challenges for Higher Education
Part II Universities and Sustainable-Development Evaluations Chapter 3: A Review of Higher Education Sustainable-development-evaluation Practices
Chapter 4: The State of Higher Education Sustainable-development Evaluation: Limitations and Opportunities
Part III Framework for Enchanced University Sustainable-Development Evaluations
Chapter 5: Evaluations that Matter: Universities and Sustainable-development Transitions
Chapter 6: Curricular Evaluations that Matter
Chapter 7: Research Evaluations that Matter
Chapter 8: Outreach Evaluations that Matter
Chapter 9: Evaluating Transnational Higher-education Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Chapter 10: Enhancing Agenda-2030-Evaluation Capacity at Northern and Southern Universities
Part IV Sustainable Development and Enhanced University Process, Outcome and Impact Evaluations
Chapter 11: Practical Guidelines for Utilizing the Sustainable-development-evaluation Framework
Chapter 12: Conclusion: Evaluation and Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Conclusion: Universities, Evaluation, and the 2030 Agenda
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