International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 22 Issue 4

Are distance higher education institutions sustainable enough? – A comparison between two distance learning universities

Luis-Alberto Casado-Aranda, Sandra Sofia Caeiro, Jorge Trindade, Arminda Paço, David Lizcano Casas, Ana Landeta

Universities are continually transforming its structure and governance in response to the new social, environmental and economic challenges. Particularly, there has recently been…

Prevalence of food insecurity and satisfaction with on-campus food choices among Australian university students

Sandra Murray, Corey Peterson, Carmen Primo, Catherine Elliott, Margaret Otlowski, Stuart Auckland, Katherine Kent

Food insecurity and poor access to healthy food is known to compromise tertiary studies in university students, and food choices are linked to student perceptions of the campus…

Service-learning in physical education teacher education: a pedagogical model towards sustainable development goals

Luis García-Rico, L. Fernando Martínez-Muñoz, María Luisa Santos-Pastor, Oscar Chiva- Bartoll

The purpose of this study is to know the contribution of service-learning (SL) on the awareness-raising and sensitivity with regards to sustainable development goals (SDGs) in…

Intention to adopt pro-environmental behaviors among university students of hard and soft sciences: the case of drinking by reusable bottles

Angela Fedi, Francesco La Barbera, Annabelle De Jong, Chiara Rollero

The market of bottled water is one of the largest in the world. Paradoxically, the consumption of water in plastic bottles is highest in countries rich in the potable tap water of…

Self-construal types and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment of employees in a university

Oluyinka Ojedokun

In researching into workplace pro-environmental behaviors, there is sparse evidence on self-construals with dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior for the environment…

Towards effective e-learning on sustainability: a case study-course on participatory processes in environmental politics

Daniela Perbandt, Marie-Sophie Heinelt, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Mahsa Mapar, Sandra Sofia Caeiro

Distance universities are of great importance for establishing sustainability literacy, as they operate as multipliers for thousands of students. However, despite several…

The role of communication medium in increasing e-waste recycling awareness among higher educational institutions

Krishnadas Nanath, Shivani Ajit Kumar

This paper aims to test the effectiveness of communication platforms in conveying the importance of sustainability messages focusing on electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. While…

The wheel of fortune as a novel support for constructive alignment and transformative sustainability learning in higher education

Sue Noy, Teresa Capetola, Rebecca Patrick

Education for Sustainability in Higher Education (ESHE) sits within and across disciplinary settings that share the need for a framework that provides a basis for pedagogy…

Social transformation interventions at South African public universities

Sameera Abed, Barry Ackers

The purpose of this study was to identify the transformation disclosures in the publicly available annual reports of South African public universities and to establish the extent…

Education for sustainable development in Japan and Malaysia: a comparative study among engineering undergraduates

Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Fumihiko Tochinai, Hidekazu Kanemitsu, Ali Al-Talbe

This study aims to examine the impacts of education for sustainable development subject(s) offered at University A, Japan and University B, Malaysia on the attitude and perception…

Managing campus parking demand through course scheduling – an approach to campus sustainability

Sumei Zhang, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah

The purpose of this study is to use the optimization modeling method to explore whether there is an ideal arrangement of course enrollments that can yield optimal parking demand…

Analysing and evaluating environmental information disclosure in universities: the role of corporate governance, stakeholders and culture

Jesús Mauricio Flórez-Parra, Maria Victoria Lopez-Perez, Antonio M. López Hernández, Raquel Garde Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the internal and external factors related to the disclosure of environmental information in universities which reflect the actions carried…