50 Shades of Green: An Examination of Sustainability Policy on Canadian Campuses

Autor/inn/en	Vaughter, Philip; Wright, Tarah; Herbert, Yuill
Titel	50 Shades of Green: An Examination of Sustainability Policy on Canadian Campuses
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 45 (2015) 4, S.81-100 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0316-1218
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sustainability; Campuses; Higher Education; College Role; Sustainable Development; School Activities; College Planning; Educational Practices; Annual Reports; Regression (Statistics); Regional Characteristics; Correlation; School Policy; Institutional Research; Classification; School Size; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Studienplanung; Bildungspraxis; Annual report; Tätigkeitsbericht; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Regionaler Faktor; Korrelation; Schulpolitik; Institutionelle Forschung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Kanada
Abstract	Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, asserts that education is one of the most effective instruments that society can employ in the effort to adopt sustainable development. This paper is a first effort to explore the degree to which Canadian institutions of higher education, including colleges and universities, have embraced this assertion. It includes the first census of the existing environment/sustainability policies and/or plans of Canadian postsecondary institutions (n = 220), and an examination of the relationships between the existence of an environment/sustainability policy/plan and the presence of other sustainability initiatives on campus. The focus on policies and plans is timely because in public institutions like colleges and universities, actions and practices are determined by policy. The results reveal a number of patterns and insights, including, for example, the influence of provincial legislation on the uptake of policies. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01