Efficiency and Effectiveness of Universities in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2024 | Viewed by 6846
Special Issue Editors
Interests: productivity and efficiency analysis in transportation; higher education and agriculture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The role of universities has always been in teaching and research. Over recent decades, a third mission has grown in importance, that of contribution to society. Universities, through their teaching, research and third mission activities, as well as their own operations, are in the ideal position to propose (and make) changes and educate future leaders on environmental and sustainability issues; and they further have a responsibility to be national and global leaders in mitigating carbon footprint and climate change. The apparent commitment of universities to addressing environmental and sustainability issues is evidenced by their strategies, multi-year sustainability plans, and accompanying carbon footprint targets. However, actions of universities may not always align with their strategies and sustainability goals; indeed universities, in their own right, contribute significantly to carbon emissions, and this leads to the question on whether current actions and strategies by universities to mitigate carbon footprint are effective and sufficient to achieve their stated objectives.
Universities can influence global sustainability through their teaching, research, third mission and own actions. This special issue invites articles that cover any or all of these university activities, and which address one or more SDGs and the outcomes. The emphasis is on policy recommendations and actions. Papers submitted to the special issue should be empirical and/or practical in nature, and might be based on quantitative analysis (such as cross section or time series analysis), or on case studies. Papers selected for this special issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results and applications.
Dr. Boon Lee
Prof. Dr. Jill Johnes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- universities
- sustainable development goals
- carbon footprint
- sustainability
