Universities and the Sustainable Development Future : Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda

著者名：Koehn, Peter H./Uitto, Juha I.

Routledge（2017/04/07発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781138212534
• eISBN：9781315449944

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