Living Sustainability in Higher Education

Connecting Communities, Learning and Justice
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-91231-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Living Sustainability in Higher Education offers a new way of visualising the university: as an arena in which ideas of sustainability and justice manifest in the daily interactions that occur between students, academics and the myriad communities that live and work in and around campus.

Rather than content to be taught, it presents sustainability as something that is lived. Every decision, by individuals, institutions and governments, is simultaneously sustainable and unsustainable, just and unjust. They result in some societal objectives being advanced and others frustrated; one group of stakeholders advantaged over another. The book’s central contention is that the totality of the university experience, and the challenges and opportunities that this comprises, enables a person to learn how to navigate these tensions throughout their lifetime.

Essential reading for anyone interested in how higher education sustainability can be improved, this key title is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of sustainability learning, environmental justice and nexus. Showcasing pedagogical innovations and best practices using a global range of institutions, a powerful argument is made for higher education to move beyond its current structures and ‘ways of doing’ to embrace more progressive pedagogies that have sustainability and justice at their core.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amos, Rob

Carvalho, Priscila

Cesa-Bianchi, Silvia

Holder, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

PART 1: SUSTAINABLE STUDIES

Introduction: Learning to Live Sustainability

1. Centres of Learning

2. Research Impacts

3. Finding Animals in Universities

4. Decolonisation

PART 2: LIFE BEYOND LECTURES

5. Student Accommodation

6. Food

7. Sport  PART 3: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

8. Green Spaces

9. Universities as Community Assets

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Amos is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck (University of London), School of Law, UK.

Priscila Carvalho is Lecturer in Law at UCL, Energy Institute in the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, UK.

Silvia Cesa-Bianchi is a PhD researcher, Sciences Po (Paris), Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, France and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy.

Jane Holder is Professor of Environmental Law at UCL, Faculty of Laws, UK.