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The ‘Key Issues in Higher Education’ series aims to raise both awareness and the standards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of higher education and intends to assist national and international debate. Higher Education and Sustainable Development examines whether it is actually possible to mandate, plan, monitor and evaluate the higher education sector’s route to the production of educated, innovative, independent, self-determining, critical individuals while at the same time achieving a range of wider policy goals on the side. This book examines this question in the context of a particular international policy issue – sustainable development – which is now seen across the globe as a necessary and urgent response to a range of social and environmental issues that threaten the integrity of the biosphere and human well being. The book concludes that the idea of sustainable development holds both opportunities and dangers for universities as they pursue their proper role in a free society. Illustrated by seven in-depth case studies this book considers the complex inter-relationships of a free society and sustainable development in the context of higher education, and aims to makes recommendations for realistic future development. It is essential reading for the international higher education research community, policy-makers, university managers, students and non-Governmental organizations in the development, environment and social policy sectors.
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Higher Education and Sustainable Development Key Issues in Higher Education Series Series Editors: Gill Nicholls and Ron Barnett Books published in this series include: Citizenship and Higher Education The role of universities in communities and society Edited by James Arthur with Karen Bohlin The Challenge to Scholarship Rethinking learning, teaching and research Gill Nicholls Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education Towards a critical approach Alan Skelton The Academic Citizen The virtue of service in university life Bruce Macfarlane Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education Signals and shortcomings Mantz Yorke Higher Education and Sustainable Development Paradox and possibility Stephen Gough and William Scott First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, an informa business © 2007 Stephen Gough and William Scott All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gough, Stephen, 1953– Higher education and sustainable development : paradox and possibility / Stephen Gough and William Scott. p. cm. — (Key issues in higher education series) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Education, Higher—Economic aspects. 2. Sustainable development. I. Scott, William, 1946– II. Title. LC67.6.G68 2007 378.101—dc22 2007026174 ISBN 0-203-93842-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-41652-3 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-93842-9 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-41652-8 (hbk) ISBN13:978-0-203-93842-3 (ebk) Contents /LVW RI ¿JXUHV List of tables List of