Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: Towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations

Sustainability Science

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 101-113

  Yarime, Masaru ^a   Trencher, Gregory ^a   Mino, Takashi ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^b   Olsson, Lennart ^c   Ness, Barry ^c   Frantzeskaki, Niki ^d   Rotmans, Jan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Higher education institutions; Institutionalization; Interdisciplinarity; Social experimentation; Stakeholder collaboration; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857042248     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-012-0157-5     Document Type: Article

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