| Publisher DOI: | 10.1108/IJSHE-01-2017-0002 | Title: | Sustainable development policies as indicators and pre-conditions for sustainability efforts at universities: Fact or fiction? | Language: | English | Authors: | Leal Filho, Walter  Brandli, Luciana Londero Becker, Deisi Skanavis, Constantina Kounani, Aristea Sardi, Chrysoula Papaioannidou, Dimitra Paco, Arminda Azeiteiro, Ulisses Olim de Sousa, Louiza Raath, Schalk Pretorius, Rudi Wessel Shiel, Christine Vargas, Valeria Ruiz Trencher, Gregory Marans, Robert W. |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal or Series Name: | International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education | Volume: | 19 | Issue: | 1 | Startpage: | 85 | Endpage: | 113 | Abstract: | There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It surveys a sample of universities in Brazil, Germany, Greece, Portugal, South Africa and the UK and the USA to ascertain the extent to which universities that are active in the field of sustainable development have formal policies on sustainable development, and whether such policies are a pre-condition for successful sustainability efforts. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12738/4874 | ISSN: | 1467-6370 | Review status: | This version was peer reviewed (peer review) | Institute: | Department Gesundheitswissenschaften Fakultät Life Sciences |
Type: | Article |
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