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This book explores the multifaceted roles of universities in driving green transitions, with a particular emphasis on the teaching and learning missions alongside third mission roles. It argues that universities are uniquely positioned to address urgent sustainability challenges, such as climate change and resource depletion, but that key barriers - structural and cultural - remain.
International in scope, this book demonstrates how universities are proactively shaping green transitions by endorsing sustainability competencies, engaging with local and global challenges, and innovating research and community partnerships. Looking beyond the curriculum, contributing authors highlight non-academic approaches to fostering green transitions, including the importance of socialization, strategy and strategic partnerships, and societal engagement on a systemic level. They outline crucial challenges and dilemmas across diverse case studies with a particular focus on Asia and the Global South, proposing novel solutions and future pathways for policy, practice, and research.
Higher Education and Green Transitions is a valuable resource for scholars and students of public policy and management studies. It is also beneficial to university administrators and academic leaders tasked with designing university-wide initiatives on green transitions.
Contents
Contents
1 Higher education and green transitions: what, how and for
whom? 1
Debananda Misra, Rómulo Pinheiro and Yuzhuo Cai
2 Exploring recycling behaviours and influencing factors among
university residential hall students in Hong Kong 23
Michelle Cheng and Zhai Keyu
3 University training in degrowth for future teachers for a just
and planet-friendly ecological transition: a case study from
Spain 48
Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez, Antía Puentes Corral and
Eva Palomo-Cermeño
4 Transforming higher education teaching and learning for
sustainability competencies: exploring a holistic framework
for Hong Kong public universities 64
Weiyan Xiong
5 Higher education and inclusive green growth in low- and
middle-income countries: a perspective from Egypt's tertiary
agricultural education system 84
Lena Krautscheid and Assem Abu Hatab
6 Role of universities in developing the capabilities of
technological innovation systems for electric vehicles 115
Parvathi A R, Shuborno Chakroborty and Debananda Misra
7 Higher education and regional sustainability transformations
in Africa: university engagement in Mozambique, Cape Verde
and Angola 142
Hugo Pinto and Carla Nogueira
8 An empirical study on the environmental functions of higher
education 168
Fengliang Li, Zhilin Wang and Manqing Liu
9 Strategising social symbolic work in higher education:
institutional work and cultural change 193
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti, Rómulo Pinheiro and Jouni Kekäle
10 Sustainability-oriented universities: value propositions, policy
levers and good practices 222
Ben Jongbloed
11 The potential of university associations to promote
sustainability: a South American case 246
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti and Rómulo Pinheiro
12 Universities as catalysts for green transitions: insights and
pathways forward 268
Yuzhuo Cai, Debananda Misra and Rómulo Pinheiro
