International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 19 Issue 5

Enhancing student engagement in business sustainability through games

Kay Emblen-Perry

This paper aims to explore the value students place on the sustainable strategies game (SSG) which seeks to improve student engagement in business sustainability through enhanced…

Student team integrating aspects of sustainability in practical design education

Edilson Shindi Ueda

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the first experiences (activities, attitudes and inclinations) of an undergraduate student team with eco-design activities.

Teaching decision-making for sustainable infrastructure: a wind energy case study module

Nathan Daniel McWhirter, Tripp Shealy

This paper aims to introduce a case-based module teaching sustainable engineering, linking the Envision rating system with behavioral decision science. Three complete modules are…

Education for sustainable development in Portuguese universities: The key actors’ opinions

Carla Sofia Farinha, Ulisses Azeiteiro, Sandra Sofia Caeiro

This paper aims to determine, from key actors’ perspective, how sustainability has been integrated into the policies and strategies of higher education institutions (HEIs)…

Students’ mobility attitudes and sustainable transport mode choice

Mattia Cattaneo, Paolo Malighetti, Chiara Morlotti, Stefano Paleari

This study aims to explore the propensity of university students to use different sustainable transport modes, taking into account individual and specific trip characteristics, as…

Understanding Finnish student craft teachers’ conceptions of sustainability

Niina Väänänen, Leena Vartiainen, Minna Kaipainen, Harri Pitkäniemi, Sinikka Pöllänen

This study aims to explore student craft teachers’ conceptions of sustainable craft. This is an important issue because the Finnish National Curriculum of Basic Education…

Campus bottled water bans, not always the solution

Beth Choate, Brittany Y. Davis, Jacqueline Verrecchia

The purpose of this study was to identify how to reduce bottled water use on our campus, given that the majority of students were bringing it onto campus from outside sources…

Student teachers’ perceptions about the social pillar of urban sustainability: Attached importance and believed effectiveness of education

Vasiliki Maria Panatsa, Georgios Malandrakis

This study aims to detect preschool and primary school student–teachers’ (STs) views about the social pillar of urban sustainability and particularly about the importance they…

A practical learning environment for sustainability and sustainable tourism: The case of student engagement at the sustainability house (SH)

Young Hoon Kim, Daniel L. Spears, Elecer E. Vargas-Ortega, Tae-Hee Kim

This paper aims to review the current joint master’s program between two international institutions in the USA and Costa Rica; to identify students’ perceptions and experiences…