Teaching organisational change management for sustainability: Designing and delivering a course at the University of Leeds to better prepare future sustainability change agents

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-215

  Lozano, Rodrigo ^a   Ceulemans, Kim ^b   Scarff Seatter, Carol ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability; Curriculum development; Education for sustainable development; Organisational change management for sustainability

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DESIGN; PLANNING; TEACHING;

CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; COURSE ASSESSMENT; COURSE OBJECTIVES; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE; TEACHING AND LEARNING; UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84938069625     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.03.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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