Living Sustainability in Higher Education

Connecting Communities, Learning and Justice

AvRob Amos,Priscila Carvalho

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Living Sustainability in Higher Education offers a new way of visualising the university: as an arena in which ideas of sustainability and justice manifest in the daily interactions that occur between students, academics and the myriad communities that live and work in and around campus.Rather than content to be taught, it presents sustainability as something that is lived. Every decision, by individuals, institutions and governments, is simultaneously sustainable and unsustainable, just and unjust. They result in some societal objectives being advanced and others frustrated; one group of stakeholders advantaged over another. The book’s central contention is that the totality of the university experience, and the challenges and opportunities that this comprises, enables a person to learn how to navigate these tensions throughout their lifetime.Essential reading for anyone interested in how higher education sustainability can be improved, this key title is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of sustainability learning, environmental justice and nexus. Showcasing pedagogical innovations and best practices using a global range of institutions, a powerful argument is made for higher education to move beyond its current structures and ‘ways of doing’ to embrace more progressive pedagogies that have sustainability and justice at their core.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-09
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032912325

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Rob Amos is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck (University of London), School of Law, UK. Priscila Carvalho is Lecturer in Law at UCL, Energy Institute in the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, UK.Silvia Cesa-Bianchi is a PhD researcher, Sciences Po (Paris), Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, France and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy.Jane Holder is Professor of Environmental Law at UCL, Faculty of Laws, UK.

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An original and thought-provoking contribution, this book reimagines sustainability as a concept not only taught and learned but lived across our universities. It will resonate with any scholar and student committed to breaking disciplinary silos and reshaping higher education to meet the sustainability challenges of tomorrow.Chiara Armeni, Professor of Environmental Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumIn this luminous work, Amos, Carvalho, Cesa-Bianchi and Holder chart a path that winds with elegance and equanimity through the underbrush of sustainability in higher education. The authors display remarkable clarity, anchored in personal experience, in framing the challenges that sustainability raises for universities – both in terms of where to go and of how to get there. With topics ranging from student accommodation to the place of animals, Living Sustainability in Higher Education coheres around a vision of the university as a laboratory, where the ‘liminal animals’ that live on campus, both literal and figurative, can keep exploring what it means to dwell together with justice and dignity… Even when the answer isn’t straightforward.Luigi Russi, Associate Professor of Pedagogies for Transition, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, France

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ForewordPreface and AcknowledgementsPART 1: SUSTAINABLE STUDIESIntroduction: Learning to Live Sustainability1. Centres of Learning2. Research Impacts3. Finding Animals in Universities4. DecolonisationPART 2: LIFE BEYOND LECTURES5. Student Accommodation6. Food7. SportPART 3: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS8. Green Spaces9. Universities as Community AssetsConclusion