Critical attributes of Sustainability in Higher Education: A categorisation from literature review

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 126, Issue , 2016, Pages 260-276

  Viegas, Cláudia V ^a   Bond, Alan J ^b,c   Vaz, Caroline R ^d   Borchardt, Miriam ^a   Pereira, Giancarlo Medeiros ^a   Selig, Paulo M ^d   Varvakis, Gregório ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Interdisciplinarity; Knowledge; Philosophy; Sustainability in Higher Education; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CURRICULA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING;

EPISTEMOLOGY; HIGHER EDUCATION; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY; TRANSDISCIPLINARITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84961891858     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.02.106     Document Type: Article

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