The resources listed on this page have been identified by SCC leaders and advisors
as relevant to the challenges faced by sustainability educators. Listings include both recommended
works and other items expressing controversial but noteworthy perspectives. Additional
suggestions for inclusion are welcomed.
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Matthias Barth, Marco Rieckmann, Kerry Shephard
Seeking sustainability competence and capability in the ESD and HESD
literature: an international philosophical hermeneutic analysis
Arnim Wiek, Lauren Withycombe & Charles L. Redman
Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development
Sustain Sci (2011) 6:203–218
AASHE
Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action
2010 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI)
A partnership of UN entities (UNESCO, UN-DESA, UNEP, Global Compact, and UNU)
Matthias Barth
Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education: Learning in an age of transformation
(Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development) 1st Edition, 2015
Bonnie McBain , Liam Phelan, Paul Brown, Valerie Brown, Iain Hay, Richard Horsfield, Ros Taplin, Anna Ferguson
Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability
The University of Newcastle, 2015
UNESCO
Shaping the Education of Tomorrow
2012 Report on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Developmentnt
Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals
Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise, and Practice
CERC Studies in Comparative Education, 2004
Mitchell Thomashow
The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
MIT Press, 2014
Debra Rowe
“Education for a Sustainable Future”
Science, Vol. 317, Issue 5836, pp. 323-324, 2007
Lucas F. Johnston
Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum
Routledge, 1st edition 2012
Rachel Peterson & Peter W. Wood
Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
National Association of Scholars report, 2015
George Will
‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses
Opinion column, Washington Post, April 15, 2015
K. Smith
“The Status of Education for Sustainable Development in the United States: A Report to the U.S. Department of State,” December, 2015
A. Franklin & P. Blyton
A guide to social science methods, practice and engagement. Earthscan, 2011
G.A. Smith & D.R. Williams
Ecological education in action: On weaving education, culture, and the environment. State University of New York Press, 1999
V.A. Brown, J.A. Harris, & J.Y. Russell
Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination. Earthscan, 2010
C. Desha & K. Hargroves
Higher education and sustainable development : A model for curriculum renewal. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
H. Burns
“Teaching for Transformation:(Re) Designing sustainability courses based on ecological principles.” 2 Journal of Sustainability Education, 2011
