Sustainability on campus : stories and strategies for change /
Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus. These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Urban and industrial environments.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Peggy F. Bartlett and Geoffrey W. Chase
- Part I: Laying the cornerstones
- Process and practice: creating the sustainable university / Christopher Uhl
- The green task force: facing the challenges to environmental stewardship at a small liberal arts college / Abigail R. Jahiel and R. Given Harper
- No longer waiting for someone else to do it: a take of reluctant leadership / Peggy F. Barlett
- Part II: Redesigning the curriculum / Geoffrey W. Chase and Paul Rowland
- Transdisciplinary shared learning / Richard B. Norgaard
- Place as the nexus of a sustainable future: a course for all of us / Laura B. DeLind and Terry Link
- Building political acceptance for sustainability: degree requirements for all graduates / Debra Rowe
- Part II: Building buildings, building learning communities
- Can educational institutions learn? The creation of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College / David W. Orr
- The development of Stanford University's guidelines for sustainable buildings: a student perspective / Audrey B. Chang
- Part IV: Engaging communities, engaging students
- Maintaining a college-community ecotourism project: faculty initiative, institutional vision, student participation, and community partnerships / Richard D. Bowden and Eric Pallant
- Teaching for change: the leadership in environmental education partnership / Paul Faulstich
- Restoring natural landscapes: from ideals to action / Allen Franz
- Part V: Building system-wide commitment
- South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative / Patricia L. Jerman [and others]
- Challenges of greening a decentralized campus: making the connection to health / Polly Walker and Robert S. Lawrence
- Sustaining sustainability: lessons from Ramapo College / Michael R. Edelstein
- Cultivating a shared environmental vision at Middlebury College / Nans Jenks-Jay.