TY - BOOK

T1 - Higher Education for Sustainable Development

T2 - Looking Back and Moving Forward

A2 - Barth, Matthias

A2 - Rieckmann, Marco

A2 - Sanusi, Zainal Abidin

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The year 2009 marked the completion of the first half of the UN Decade „Education for Sustainable Development”. This provided the opportunity to critically reflect on the achievements so far and the tasks and challenges remaining to be addressed. Thus, the Third International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, jointly organized by the UNESCO Chair „Higher Education for Sustainable Development” at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 2009 addressed the central question of what added value integrating questions of sustainability has for teaching and learning in higher education. This book reflects upon what has been achieved so far in higher education forsustainable development and gives a snapshot of what is going on at the verymoment. We trust this will contribute to the discourse in the growing area ofhigher education for sustainable development and help to fulfill the objectiveoutlined in the title of this volume: to look back and move forward.

AB - The year 2009 marked the completion of the first half of the UN Decade „Education for Sustainable Development”. This provided the opportunity to critically reflect on the achievements so far and the tasks and challenges remaining to be addressed. Thus, the Third International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, jointly organized by the UNESCO Chair „Higher Education for Sustainable Development” at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 2009 addressed the central question of what added value integrating questions of sustainability has for teaching and learning in higher education. This book reflects upon what has been achieved so far in higher education forsustainable development and gives a snapshot of what is going on at the verymoment. We trust this will contribute to the discourse in the growing area ofhigher education for sustainable development and help to fulfill the objectiveoutlined in the title of this volume: to look back and move forward.

KW - Sustainability education

KW - Hochschulbildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

KW - Higher Education and Science Management

M3 - Conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-88864-485-6

T3 - Higher Education for Sustainability

BT - Higher Education for Sustainable Development

PB - VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften

CY - Bad Homburg

ER -