International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Article	Citations
SDG 4 in higher education: challenges and opportunities	89
Transformative learning in the field of sustainability: a systematic literature review (1999-2019)	84
Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review	81
Viewpoint: accelerating the implementation of the SDGs	44
A whole-institution approach towards sustainability: a crucial aspect of higher education’s individual and collective engagement with the SDGs and beyond	39
Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden	39
Students’ learning sustainability – implicit, explicit or non-existent: a case study approach on students’ key competencies addressing the SDGs in HEI program	36
Integrating sustainability in higher education: a Swedish case	35
Service-learning in physical education teacher education: a pedagogical model towards sustainable development goals	35
Sustainable leadership in higher education institutions: social innovation as a mechanism	35
Drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial intentions among university students: an integrated model from a developing world context	31
Circular economy, sustainability and teacher training in a higher education institution	31
Sustainability at a Brazilian university: developing environmentally sustainable practices and a life cycle assessment case study	29
The promotion of sustainable development in higher education institutions: top-down bottom-up or neither?	29
Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the students’ pro-environmental behavior: a case-study in a Portuguese HEI	28
A study of development mode in green campus to realize the sustainable development goals	27
Education for sustainable development in Pakistani higher education institutions: an exploratory study of students’ and teachers’ perceptions	26
Innovations and challenges in SDG integration and reporting in higher education: a case study from the University of South Florida	24
Curriculum integration of sustainability in engineering education – a national study of programme director perspectives	24
Sustainability university rankings: a comparative analysis of UI green metric and the times higher education world university rankings	23
The role of Education 5.0 in accelerating the implementation of SDGs and challenges encountered at the University of Zimbabwe	23
Smart and learning campus as living lab to foster education for sustainable development: an experience with air quality monitoring	23
Promoting sustainable development in higher education institutions: the use of the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system in support of green marketing	23
The COVID-19 pandemic and the growing need to train engineers aligned to the sustainable development goals	22
Transformative education: towards a relational, justice-oriented approach to sustainability	22

Plant blindness and sustainability	20
Advancing SDG competencies in higher education: exploring an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach	20
Investigating the environmental behavior of business and accounting university students	20
From environmental education to education for sustainable development in higher education: a systematic review	20
Prevalence of food insecurity and satisfaction with on-campus food choices among Australian university students	20
Transnational universities, host communities and local residents: social impacts, university social responsibility and campus sustainability	19
Sustainability in higher education: what is happening in Pakistan?	19
Higher education: the best practices for fostering competences for sustainable development through the use of active learning methodologies	18
Teaching sustainability as complex systems approach: a sustainable development goals workshop	18
Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable development of higher education institutions: an intellectual capital approach	18
Applying SDGs as a systematic approach for incorporating sustainability in higher education	18
Universities speak up regarding the implementation of sustainable development challenges	17
Incorporating sustainability in engineering curriculum: a study of the Australian universities	17
Integration, implementation and reporting outlooks of sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs): index and case base validation	17
A study of the Web visibility of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda on university websites	17
Sustainable development goals: a framework for deploying indicators for higher education institutions	17
Enhancing the effects of university education for sustainable development on social sustainability: the role of social capital and real-world learning	17
Applying sustainability into engineering curriculum under the background of “new engineering education” (NEE)	16
Sustainability in management education: a Biggs’ 3P model application	16
Organizational change for sustainability education: a case study of one university’s efforts to create and implement institution-wide sustainability competencies	16
Education for sustainable development amidst COVID-19 pandemic: role of sustainability pedagogies in developing students’ sustainability consciousness	15
Implementing social projects with undergraduate students: an analysis of essential characteristics	15
How management education is engaging students in the sustainable development goals	15
Learning processes for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses – insights from a comparative international study	15
COVID-19, sustainable development and higher education: towards a recovery path	15
Sustainability funding in higher education: a literature-based review	15
Constructivist approach in teaching sustainability and business ethics: a case study	15
Framing the role of higher education in sustainable development: a case study analysis	15
Classical paradigms versus complexity thinking in engineering education: an essential discussion in the education for sustainable development	15
Enhancing sustainable development goals or promoting universities? An analysis of the times higher education impact rankings	14
Exploring the nature and culture of science as an academic discipline: implications for the integration of education for sustainable development	14
Sustainability practices at higher education institutions in Asia	14
The transforming generation: increasing student awareness about the effects of economic decisions on sustainability	14
Energy sustainability in teaching and outreach initiatives and the contribution to the 2030 Agenda	14
Sustainability education at higher education institutions: pedagogies and students’ competences	13
Developing key competencies in sustainability through project-based learning in graduate sustainability programs	13
University gardens for sustainable citizenship: assessing the impacts of garden-based learning on environmental and food education at Spanish higher education	13
Accelerating the implementation of SDG 4: stakeholder perceptions towards initiation of sustainable community engagement projects by higher education institutions	13
Do European quality assurance frameworks support integration of transformative learning for sustainable development in higher education?	13
Research on sustainability leadership in higher education: a scoping review	13
Educating for transitions: ecovillages as transdisciplinary sustainability “classrooms”	13
Open laboratories for social innovation: a strategy for research and innovation in education for peace and sustainable developmentSustainable development is an issue of high relevance for all countrie	13
Knowledge, attitude and practice toward sustainability among university students in UAE	12
Assessment of sustainable recycling at The University of Jordan	12
Challenges of involving students in campus SDGs-related practices in an ODeL context: the case of the University of South Africa (Unisa)	12
Pre-service English language teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development: a case from Turkish higher education context	12
Characterization of solid wastes as a tool to implement waste management strategies in a university campus	12
Community needs and interests in university–community partnerships for sustainable development	12
Framing and facilitating complex problem-solving competences in interdisciplinary megaprojects: an institutional strategy to educate for sustainable development	12
Sustainable development in higher education in Nordic countries: exploring E-Learning mechanisms and SDG coverage in MOOCs	12

Enhancing sustainability education through experiential learning of sustainability reporting	11
Education for sustainable development in higher education institutions: an approach for effective interdisciplinarity	11
Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices	11
The role of sustainability in media and communication studies’ curricula throughout Europe	11
Development of assessment framework for environmental sustainability in higher education institutions	11
Lean practices toward a balanced sustainability in higher education institutions: a Brazilian experience	11
The effect of social innovation education on sustainability learning outcomes: the roles of intrinsic learning motivation and prosocial motivation	11
Climate change education in school: knowledge, behavior and attitude	11
Critical analysis of engineering education focused on sustainability in supply chain management: an overview of Brazilian higher education institutions	11
Students’ knowledge and expectations about sustainable food systems in higher education	11
A hybrid approach to sustainable development competencies: the role of formal, informal and non-formal learning experiences	11
Analysis of financial sustainability indicators of higher education institutions on foreign direct investment	11
Do sustainability practices influence university quality? A Colombian case study	11
Students’ attitude toward sustainability and humanitarian engineering education using project-based and international field learning pedagogies	11
Creating a sense of community and space for subjectification in an online course on sustainability education during times of physical distancing	10
Student-led sustainability transformations: employing realist evaluation to open the black box of learning in a Challenge Lab curriculum	10
Addressing the higher education for sustainable development agenda at the College of Open and Distance Learning, St. Mary’s University, Ethiopia: opportunities and challenges	10
A proposal of personal competencies for sustainable consumption	10
A framework for implementing and reporting United Nations sustainable development goals in Spanish higher education institutions	10
The state of the art in the incorporation of sustainable development goals in Nepalese Universities	10
Student energy-saving in higher education tackling the challenge of decarbonisation	10
Students’ attitudes towards sustainable development in Serbia	10
Sustainable strategic planning in Italian higher education institutions: a content analysis	9
Using photovoice to explore the impact on a student community after including cross-sectional content on environmental sustainability in a university subject: a case study	9
A systematic bibliometric review of the United Nation’s SDGS: which are the most related to higher education institutions?	9
Delivering on the promise: how are sustainability research institutes enabling interdisciplinary research?	9
Exploring sustainable student travel behaviour in The Netherlands: balancing online and on-campus learning	9
Boosting the sustainable development goals in a civil engineering bachelor degree program	9
Understanding the factors influencing recycling behavior in college students: the role of interpersonal altruism and environmental concern	9
Leveraging sport as a venue and vehicle for transformative sustainability learning	9
Financing university sustainability initiatives in China: actors and processes	9
Promoting language education for sustainable development: a program effects case study in Japanese higher education	8
The ecological footprint and environmental sustainability of students of a public university in Ghana: developing ecologically sustainable practices	8
Stimulating boundary crossing learning in a multi-stakeholder learning environment for sustainable development	8
Art and higher education for environmental sustainability: a matter of emergence?	8
Online learning and teaching for the SDGs – exploring emerging university strategies	8
Education for sustainable development and sustainability consciousness: evidence from Malaysian universities	8
Is the global reporting initiative suitable to account for university social responsibility? Evidence from European institutions	8
Towards energy transition at the Faculty of Education of Bilbao (UPV/EHU): diagnosing community and building	8
Teaching digital natives to acquire competences for sustainable development	8
Toward an integrated reporting framework in higher education institutions: evidence from a public university	8
Spaces of learning – practising the SDGs through geographical fieldwork methods in a nature park	8
Intention to adopt pro-environmental behaviors among university students of hard and soft sciences: the case of drinking by reusable bottles	8
Collegiate athletics environmental sustainability efforts within STARS reporting	8
Barriers to sustainability at Pakistan public universities and the way forward	8
Student food insecurity and the social equity pillar of campus sustainability	8
Provision of education for sustainability development and sustainability literacy in business programs in three higher education institutions in Brazil, Colombia and Peru	8
Safety management module to create social sustainability skills	8
Greening of the syllabus in faculties of education sciences through sustainable development goals: the case of public Andalusian universities (Spain)	7
Environmental service-learning approach in higher education – a descriptive case study on student-led life cycle assessments of university cafeteria meals	7
Analysing and evaluating environmental information disclosure in universities: the role of corporate governance, stakeholders and culture	7
The Global Goals: bringing education for sustainable development into US business schools	7
Which leadership processes encourage sustainable transitions within universities?	7
The wheel of fortune as a novel support for constructive alignment and transformative sustainability learning in higher education	7
Education for sustainable development in Spanish higher education: an assessment of sustainability competencies in engineering and education degrees	7
Integrating education for sustainable development in physical education: fostering critical and systemic thinking	7
Students’ perceptions of HEI regarding environmental sustainability – a comparative analysis	7
Green absorptive capacity, green dynamic capabilities and green service innovation: a study in Brazilian universities	7
Developing a method for incorporating sustainability into the strategic planning of higher education institutions	7
Sustainability survey to assess student perspectives	7
Teaching sustainability-oriented capabilities using active learning approach	7
Hybrid method to guide sustainable initiatives in higher education: a critical analysis of Brazilian municipalities	7
Problem-posing in management classrooms for collective sustainability transformation	7
Engineering students’ agency beliefs and career goals to engage in sustainable development: differences between first-year students and seniors	7
Climate change advocacy: exploring links between student empowerment and civic engagement	7
Active methodologies and curricular sustainability in teacher training	7
Pedagogies for sustainability: insights from a foundational sustainability course in the built environment	6
Educating the educators to be a driving force in higher education towards sustainable development	6
Analysis of sustainability insertion in materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes	6
Towards a sustainable campus: working together to achieve the green campus flag on the UDC peripheral campus of Ferrol	6
Training students in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability education: nurturing cross-faculty staff commitment and continuous community collaboration	6
“Hope dies, action begins?” The role of hope for proactive sustainability engagement among university students	6
Education for sustainable development at Chemnitz University of Technology	6
Transformational learning for sustainability leadership – essential components in synergy	6
The paradox model: towards a conceptual framework for engaging with sustainability in higher education	6
An assessment of key sustainability competencies: a review of scales and propositions for validation	6
Inquiry in higher education for sustainable development: crossing disciplinary knowledge boundaries	6
Analysis of the validity and reliability of a questionnaire to measure students’ perception of inclusion of sustainability in engineering degrees	6
Education for flourishing: an illustration of boundary object use, peer feedback and distance learning	6
Sustainability governing entities in higher education throughout Chile	6

Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university	6
Individual-level characteristics of environmental sustainability among students in a higher education institution: the role of happiness and academic performance	6
Sustainability governance toward an organizational sustainability culture at German higher education institutions	6
Towards sustainable development: a systematic review of the past decade’s literature on the social, environment and governance and universities in Latin America	6
Training students for complex sustainability issues: a literature review on the design of inter- and transdisciplinary higher education	6
Toward a carbon neutral campus: a scalable approach to estimate carbon storage and biosequestration, an example from University of Michigan	6
Proposal for sustainability action archetypes for higher education institutions	6
Place-based inquiry in a university course abroad: lessons about education for sustainability in the urban outdoors	6
Strengthening city–university partnerships to advance sustainability solutions: a study of research collaborations between the University of British Columbia and City of Vancouver	6
Identifying and addressing reverse salients in infrastructural change. The case of a small zero emission campus in Southern Norway	5
Global warming in the minds of Mexican higher education students: an exploratory study	5
Teachers’ competencies in education for sustainable development in the context of Vietnam	5
Quantifying universities’ direct and indirect carbon emissions – the case of Delft University of Technology	5
Pro-environmental awareness of university students – assessment through sustainability literacy test	5
A sustainability internship program: strategies for creating student stewards for sustainability	5
Educating prospective teachers for a sustainable gender equality practice: survey design and validation of a self-efficacy scale	5
Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program	5
Assessing universities’ social sustainability: accounting for stakeholder value	5
University students involved in a sustainable world: assessing sustainable consumption in Spain	5
Towards economic sustainability: how higher education can support the business operations of emerging clothing manufacturing micro enterprises	5
Contribution of PRME in education, research, and outreach in Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Wicked problems: university research topic convergence despite divergence in local educational and innovation policies	5
Circular economy, cradle to cradle and zero waste frameworks in teacher education for sustainability	5
Self-counciousness competence as driver of innovation and environmental commitment in higher education students	5
Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development	5
Do professional courses prepare hospitality students for efficient surplus food management? A self-evaluation of professional competence in food waste prevention	5
Education for sustainable development through research-based learning in an online environment	5
The socially responsible European university: a challenging project	5
Protected areas and environmental conservation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: on HEIs, livelihoods and sustainable development	5
Sustainable campus using concept mapping: a bottom-up approach engaging both staff and students	5
Developing leadership qualities in environmental sustainability through university co-curricular activities	5
Sustainability in library management in higher education institutions: a bibliometric analysis	5
Pushing the boundaries: experience-based learning in early phases of graduate sustainability curricula	5
The impact of peer learning on student performance in an architectural sustainability course	5
University air travel and greenhouse gas mitigation: an analysis of higher education climate policies	5
Sustainability of Indian management education institutions	5
The HESFS for higher education funding, employment and sustainability	5
Project-based learning and pedagogies for virtual reality-aided green building education: case study on a university course	5
Are distance higher education institutions sustainable enough? – A comparison between two distance learning universities	5
The relationship between the incorporation of sustainability in higher education and the student’s behavior: self-reported sustainable behavior scale	5
Innovation for environmental sustainability: longitudinal effects of an education for sustainable development intervention on university students’ pro-environmentalism	5
Campus sustainability in the Australian higher education sector: divergence and convergence in planning, reporting and tactics	5
Sustainable development competencies and student-centered teaching strategies in higher education institutions: the role of professors as gatekeepers	5
The role of HEIs to achieve SDG7 goals from Netzero campuses: case studies and possibilities in Brazil	4
Students leading students: a qualitative study exploring a student-led model for engagement with the sustainable development goals	4
Predicting sustainable consumption of package-free bath products among students in higher education institutions	4
Transforming students’ behaviour preferences: achievable changes by a sustainability course	4
A literature review on the strategies implemented by higher education institutions from 2010 to 2020 to foster pro-environmental behavior of students	4
The nexus between stakeholders’ materiality and sustainable development goals: evidence from higher education institutions	4
Climate literacy among undergraduate students who study science in Los Angeles	4
Exploring fields of ambiguity in the sustainability transition of universities	4
The usual discourse of sustainable development and its impact on students of economics: a case from Czech higher education context	4
Reducing the environmental impact of food service in universities using life cycle assessment	4
Assessment of solid waste management practice in the university campus	4
Teaching an interdisciplinary course in sustainable food systems: science and history meet in “a world that works”	4
Teaching sustainability: does style matter?	4
Sustainability in the mission and vision statements of Colombian Universities	4
The role of universities in the inclusion of refugees in higher education and in society from the perspective of the SDGS	4
A framework for integrating sustainable development concepts into the chemistry curriculum towards achieving education for sustainable development in Malaysia	4
Applied engineering education for soft skills in the context of sustainability and mobility	4
The role of online social networks in university students’ environmentally responsible behavior	4
The role of communication medium in increasing e-waste recycling awareness among higher educational institutions	4
A comparison on the evaluation standards of sustainable campus between China and America	4
Social responsibility in the context of inclusive higher education development – experiences and insights from the perspective of participatory teaching	4
Exploring the development of context appreciation in coursework that targets problem-solving for sustainable development	4
A comparative study on turnaround leadership in higher education and the successful implementation of the UN’s sustainable development goals	4
The influence of sustainable branding and opinion leaders on international students’ intention to study: a case of Universiti Sains Malaysia	4
Sustainability reporting on the websites of public and private universities in Ghana	4
Exploring innovative strategies in problem based learning to contribute to sustainable development: a case study	4
Action learning partnerships: carbon, commerce and community co-learning at a Canadian university	3
What is the role of economics and business studies in the development of attitudes in favour of sustainability?	3
Exploring personal definitions of sustainability and their impact on perceptions of sustainability culture	3
Exploring the relationship between dispositions to think critically and sustainability concern in HESD	3
Schemata and creative thinking ability in cool-critical-creative-meaningful (3CM) learning	3
Agile social learning – capacity-building for sustainable development in higher education	3
Empowering undergraduate students to take action: an empathetic mindset toward education for sustainable development	3
Don’t be a waster! Student perceptions of recycling strategies at an English University’s halls of residence	3
Greening higher education? From responsibilization to accountabilization in the incorporation of sustainability in higher education	3
Measuring the impact of organizational characteristics on the sustainability performance of US institutions of higher education	3
Promoting recycling, reducing and reusing in the School of Design: a step toward improving sustainability literacy	3
Campus greening from social sciences: emerging formulas on social responsibility and teaching innovation	3
Drivers and barriers in developing sustainability leadership – a case of natural scientists at Ugandan universities	3
Comparing education for sustainable development in initial teacher education across four countries	3
Education for sustainable development in Japan and Malaysia: a comparative study among engineering undergraduates	3
Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus	3
Climate change education in China: a pioneering case of its implementation in tertiary education and its effects on students’ beliefs and attitudes	3
Key experiences for the transdisciplinary approach: fieldwork-based training in sustainability science education	3
A conceptual framework for the corporate sustainability higher education in Latin America	3
Environmental behavior of university students	3
IoT solution for energy management and efficiency on a Brazilian university campus – a case study	3
Sustainability in higher education institutions: a case study of project FUCAPE 120% sustainable	3
Examination of social workers' attitudes towards sustainable development and environment in the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Perceived interest in learning sustainability competencies among higher education students	3
Funding community sustainable development using zero energy buildings	3
Integrating professional sustainability literacy into the master of public administration curriculum	3