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Table of Contents

Foreword: When You Wake Up Tomorrow, Paul Rowland

Chapter 1: Introduction: What’s Required to Take EfS to the Next Level? Dedee DeLongpre Johnston and Lucas Johnston

SECTION 1: Understanding the Landscape for Change

Chapter 2: The Emerging Environmental Sustainability Program at Meredith College: Exploring Student and Faculty Interest and Participation, Laura Fieselman and Erin Lindquist

Chapter 3: Understanding Student Environmental Interests When Designing Multidisciplinary Curriculum, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Greg Hitzhusen, Robyn S. Wilson, Adam Zwickle

Chapter 4: Learning Outcomes: An International Comparison of Countries and Declarations, Debra Rowe and Lucas Johnston

SECTION 2: Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Strategies and Tactics

Chapter 5: Systems Study of an International Masters Program: A Case from Sweden, Sanaz Karim, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Asa Heiter

Chapter 6: Keys to Breaking Disciplinary Barriers that Limit Sustainable Development Courses, William Van Lopik

SECTION 3: Educating the Professional

Chapter 7: Strategies for Transforming Healthcare Curricula: A Call for Collaboration between Academia and Practitioners, Carrie Rich and Seema Wadhwa

Chapter 8: Sustainability and Professional Identity in Engineering Education, Mark Minster, Patricia D. Brackin, Rebecca DeVasher, Erik Z Hayes, Richard House, Corey Taylor

Chapter 9: Implementing Environmental Sustainability in the Global Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Industries: Developing a Comprehensive Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum, Michelle Millar, Chris Brown, Cynthia Carruthers, Thomas Jones, Yen-Soon Kim, Carola Raab, Ken Teeters, Li-Ting Yang

SECTION 4: Problem-Based Learning

Chapter 10: Everybody’s Business: Addressing the Challenge of Team-Teaching Partnerships in the Global Seminar, Tamara Savelyeva

Chapter 11: The Moral Ecology of Everyday Life, James J. Farrell

Chapter 12: The Living Home: Building It into the Curriculum, Braum Barber and Leona Rousseau

SECTION 5: Transformational Approaches

Chapter 13: Shaping Sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergent and Adaptive Curricular Models, Angela C. Halfacre, Michelle Horhota, Katherine Kransteuber, Brittany DeKnight, Brannon Andersen, Jack Byrne, Steve Trombulak, Nan Jenks-Jay

Chapter 14: Stepping Up to the Challenge—The Dalhousie Experience, Tarah Wright

Chapter 15: Sustainability as a Transformation in Education, Charles L. Redman

Chapter 16: Toward a Resilient Academy, Richard M. Carp

Epilogue

About the Contributors

About the Author

Lucas F. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) at Wake Forest University, USA.

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"This book can be used in undergraduate courses or as a subject on higher education
for sustainability at the postgraduate level. It can be used as a course manual for career
and vocational training courses and career training classes. Focusing such a relevant
subject, this book can serve as a useful reference for a diversity of professionals, with a
special emphasis to academics, researchers, politicians, administrators, managers, and
engineers that are working in the field of higher education for sustainability."--J. Paulo Davim, Int. J. Higher Education and Sustainability, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015

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