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Resources

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.

Featured Books

Nada R. Sanders & John Wood
Foundations of Sustainable Business: Theory, Function, and Strategy

Nicholas Ashford and Ralph Hall
Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development:Transforming the Industrial State

Edited by Will Focht, Michael A. Reiter, Paul A. Barresi, Richard C. Smardon
Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems

Edited by Daniel Lerch
The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Robert Sroufe
Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business

Peter A. Soyka
Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability

Jeana Wirtenberg, Linda M. Kelley, David Lipsky, William G. Russell
The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: Building New Bridges, Second Edition

Edited by Milenko Gudi, Carole Parks, Al Rosenbloom
Responsible Management Education and the Challenge of Poverty: A Teaching Perspective (1st Edition)

Isabel Rimanoczy
Stop Teaching: Principles and Practices For Responsible Management Education

AASHE
Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action
2010 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

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

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

Lucas F. Johnston
Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum
Routledge, 1st edition 2012

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

Featured Articles

K Brundiers, A Wiek, CL Redman
Real-world learning opportunities in sustainability: from classroom into the real world

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 11 (4), 308-324 (2010)

Caniglia, G., John, B., Kohler, M., Bellina, L., Wiek, A., Rojas, C., Laubichler, M. & Lang, D.
An experience-based learning framework: Activities for the initial development of sustainability competencies

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 17, 6, p. 827-852 (2016)

K Brundiers, A Wiek
Beyond interpersonal competence: Teaching and learning professional skills in sustainability

Education Sciences 7 (1), 39 (2017)

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

Debra Rowe
“Education for a Sustainable Future”
Science,  Vol. 317, Issue 5836, pp. 323-324, 2007

George Will
‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses
Opinion column, Washington Post, April 15, 2015

H. Burns
“Teaching for Transformation:(Re) Designing sustainability courses based on ecological principles.” 2 Journal of Sustainability Education, 2011

Featured Reports

UNESCO
UNESCO position paper on the Future of Education for Sustainable Development

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

The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI)
A partnership of UN entities (UNESCO, UN-DESA, UNEP, Global Compact, and UNU)

UNESCO
Shaping the Education of Tomorrow
2012 Report on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Developmentnt

Rachel Peterson & Peter W. Wood
Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
National Association of Scholars report, 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

Marsha Willard, Carole Wiedmeyer, R. Warren Flint, John S. Weedon,
Rick Woodward, Ira Feldman and Mark Edwards
The Sustainability Professional:
2010 Competency Survey Report
A research study conducted by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals

Journals Publishing on Topics in Sustainability in Higher Education

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Sustainability: The Journal of Record

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

The Journal of Sustainability Education (JSE)

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

Environmental Education Research

SCC Basics

The Sustainability Curriculum Consortium is incorporated in Maryland as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

SCC is aligning its activities around three key themes:

• Pedagogy: Innovative approaches for ESD educators
• Substantive Content: Building capacity and sharing resources on both fundamental topics and emerging trends
• Leadership: Understanding the significance of leadership in the ESD context

SCC is an AASHE member organization.

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admin@curriculumforsustainability.org

SCC mailing address:
Box 34088, Bethesda, MD 20827, USA

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