Reaching Beyond Compliance : The Challenges of Achieving Campus Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783639084979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 404 str.

Julie Newman

Opis

Reaching beyond compliance:The challenges ofachieving campus sustainability examines theobstacles to integrating principles of sustainabilityinto the decision-making procedure within aninstitution of higher education. Critical insightinto the process of building a sustainable campus isgained via the examination of the decision-makingprocess of three critical operational systems withina university: food services, purchasing and the wastemanagement system. This study explores whyprinciples of sustainability are either embraced orrejected in the decision-making procedures in auniversity setting and reaffirms that thedecision-making process is a crucial leverage pointfor reform as university strives to become sustainable.

O autorze

J. Newman, Ph.D., is the Director and founder of the Yale Office
of Sustainability. Dr. Newman''s research has focused on the role
of decision-making processes and organizational behavior in
institutionalizing sustainability into higher education.