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The Campus Sustainability Movement: A Strategic Perspective

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Author(s)
Henson, Michael
Missimer, Merlina
Muzzy, Stephen
Keywords
hållbar utveckling
sustainability - general
sustainability - strategic planning
campus sustainability movement
sustainability in higher education
vision
sustainability principles
strategy
backcasting

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/711901
Online Access
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Abstract
Society is facing a crisis of un-sustainability. The sector of higher education 
is well poised to support transition to a sustainable society. This thesis 
assesses the efforts of the Campus Sustainability Movement (CSM) in the US and 
Canada relative to a Strategic Sustainable Development Framework. Key findings 
indicate that the CSM is utilizing tools and engaging in a variety of actions 
towards sustainability. However, it is largely failing to use systems thinking 
to understand the complex interrelationships of its actions. Most efforts lack 
a strategy, and when strategy is present, it follows more from barriers than 
from a long-term goal. Current efforts mostly focus on environmental 
sustainability. The authors present a backcasting from principles of 
sustainability approach as one means to improve the strategy of the CSM. They 
also propose a vision for higher education that incorporates sustainability 
principles and fundamental human needs in an attempt to bring some concreteness 
to both the environmental and social aspects of sustainability in higher 
education.
Date
2007
Type
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http://www.bth.se/fou/cuppsats.nsf/6753b78eb2944e0ac1256608004f0535/b0f8e324039811c4c12572f200781f69?OpenDocument
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