Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Walter Leal Filho, Nandhivarman Muthu, Golda Edwin, Mihaela Sima (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 358
• Series: World Sustainability Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Firmly rooted in the theory and practice of sustainable development, this book offers a comprehensive resource on sustainability, focusing on both industrialized and developing nations. Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives is an attempt to promote and disseminate the work being done in this field by universities around the world. The need to integrate the principles and concepts of green campuses and sustainability into the core of students’ educational experiences, from high school to college or university, has now been broadly recognized. By doing so, we can ensure that the students of today and tomorrow will acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to create a more sustainable economy and social environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Evolving and Implementing Energy Recovering Strategy from Food Wastes at Jawahar Navodaya Vidhyalaya (JNV) Fostering Campus Sustainability....Pages 1-12
The Charter of Todi and the Strategy of Education for a Sustainable Management and Promotion of Territory....Pages 13-25
Overview of Natural Stones as an Energy Efficient and Climate Responsive Material Choice for Green Buildings....Pages 27-35
The Role of Higher Educational Institutions and Other Training Organizations to Promote Renewable Energy in India....Pages 37-52
Flag-Shipping ‘Indicators’ for Green-Campus Transitions and Sustainability: A Case-Study of Learner-Centered Projects at Loyola, Secunderabad....Pages 53-60
Green Transport Solutions for Developing Cities: A Case Study of Nairobi, Kenya....Pages 61-74
National University’s Integrated Approach Towards Sustainable-Green Campus: Leadership, Curriculum, and Outreach....Pages 75-91
Food Waste Prevention and Management in Higher Education....Pages 93-102
Renewable Energy on Campus at the University of Wyoming....Pages 103-111
BIOTECTURE—A New Framework to Approach Buildings and Structures for Green Campus Design....Pages 113-124
Strategies for Sustainable Development of Wetland Resources: Lake Ousteri, Puducherry....Pages 125-137
Developing Pondicherry University Silver Jubilee Campus as “Solar Campus”....Pages 139-149
University, County Government and Community Partnership for Wetland Conservation and Ecotourism Development on the Shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya....Pages 151-164
Advancing a Culture of Sustainability at the University of Michigan....Pages 165-181
Energy Efficiency in the Adoption of Renewable Energies in Schools....Pages 183-201
Integrated Land Use Development for Green Campus....Pages 203-214
Evaluation of Current Laboratory Waste Management: A Step Towards Green Campus at Amirkabir University of Technology....Pages 215-227
Gujarat Vidyapith: On the Way to Greening of the University....Pages 229-249
Potentials and Constraints for Adopting Campus Carbon Neutrality Strategies in Indian Higher Educational Institutions....Pages 251-264
Integrating Energy and Environment in Postgraduate Management Education: A Case Study from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune, India....Pages 265-276
Campus Greening in Open and Distance Learning: Curriculum Initiatives in the Department of Geography, University of South Africa....Pages 277-293
From Correspondence to Online Provisioning in Open and Distance Learning: Greening Implications versus Practical and Organisational Imperatives....Pages 295-311
Smart Campus: Recent Advances and Future Challenges for Action Research on Territorial Sustainability....Pages 313-323
Food Production as an Integrating Context for Campus Sustainability....Pages 325-336
Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Grey Water in Campus Premises....Pages 337-349
Urbanization and Green Spaces—A Study on Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore University....Pages 351-358
Campus Greening: Why It Is Worth It....Pages 359-362

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Environmental Management; Higher Education; Civil Engineering