Autores. Editado por la AEET. [Ecosistemas no se hace responsable del uso indebido de material su... more Autores. Editado por la AEET. [Ecosistemas no se hace responsable del uso indebido de material sujeto a derecho de autor]
El desarrollo sostenible constituye hoy una prioridad de las agendas políticas internacionales qu... more El desarrollo sostenible constituye hoy una prioridad de las agendas políticas internacionales que ha ido ganando adhesiones progresivas, no exentas de críticas, y que han ido concretándose en normativas y en convenios mundiales específicos tales como Biodiversidad, Cambio Climático, Bosques, Agua, Suelos, Educación... Estas iniciativas están contribuyendo a una mayor convergencia mundial sobre los instrumentos de planificación socioambiental, aun a sabiendas de que la base de la organización, de la producción y del consumo de las sociedades más desarrolladas abriga un sinfín de contradicciones en cuyo seno se ha gestado el concepto de crisis ambiental, que abarca no sólo cuestiones relativas al agotamiento de recursos, al efecto invernadero, a la contaminación de mares y al desequilibrio general de los ecosistemas, sino también desigualdades económicas, pobreza, dispar distribución de recursos, conflictos bélicos, equidad y justicia social. La iniciativa llevada a cabo por la unesc...
La década avanza en tiempo real. Ahora que ya estamos plenamente instalados en el nuevo siglo, en... more La década avanza en tiempo real. Ahora que ya estamos plenamente instalados en el nuevo siglo, en el siglo que algunos científicos como Ramón Margaleff, artistas como Eduardo Chillida, literatos como Günter Gras, políticos como Al Gore, teólogos como Leonardo Boff, o naturalistas como Joaquín Araujo, han catalogado como el Siglo de la Ecología, seguimos buscando ideas motrices que nos permitan construir mundos a nuestra medida, mundos pensados y construidos a escala humana, y escalas humanas dotadas de instrumentos tecnológicos, científicos y artísticos para cambiar el mundo que tenemos sin destruir el que deseamos. Es muy posible que el discurso de la sostenibilidad se haya instalado con estas intenciones, pero hemos de exigirle resultados, evidencias y pruebas convincentes. Con el eslogan Decenio de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, se pretende avanzar hacia modelos de organización social, económica y política más igualitarios y equitativos, más ecológicos, más humanos, ...
There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how... more There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how to connect them in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper's aim is to provide deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences, as well as how these interrelate. A survey was developed to investigate sustainability teaching in 15 HEIs. The survey was sent to educators of each HEI from which 668 responses were obtained. The responses were analysed in a five‐step process: (1) descriptive statistics; (2) Pearson correlations; (3) principal component analyses (PCAs) to detect groups; (4) Pearson correlations between the groups; and (5) regressions. The first step provided the base to carry out the PCAs, from which three groups for the pedagogical approaches (Universal, Social, and Environmental) and three for the sustainability competences (Extrospective‐social, Introspective‐personal, and Cogitative‐processual) were obtained. The correl...
A integracion dos instrumentos sociais na xestion ambiental e un capitulo ainda pendiente. Neste ... more A integracion dos instrumentos sociais na xestion ambiental e un capitulo ainda pendiente. Neste artigo describense alguns dos problemas e as posibles solucions nun camino de aprendizaxe mutuo entre educacion e xestion.
EDUCATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE-TEST DE PAIRES D'IMAGES. RESUME: On décrit les avantages que présente ... more EDUCATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE-TEST DE PAIRES D'IMAGES. RESUME: On décrit les avantages que présente l'utilisation de techniques basées sur le choix d'images couplées pour analyser les modifications d'attitudes envers l'environnement manifestées par des groupes de sujets qui participent à des différents programmes d'éducation environnementale. SUMMARY : We describe the advantages of using the analysis of preferences of paired images for the assessment of environmental attitude changes induced by environmental education programmes.
In 2017, the United Nations adopted a global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator framew... more In 2017, the United Nations adopted a global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator framework, calling on member countries to collect complementary national and regional indicators. Cities are crucial to channelling efforts towards sustainability through the use of these indicators. They provide an integrated approach to the city situation monitoring sustainability. However, more research is needed to understand how to adapt the goals, targets and indicators to specific municipal contexts. In 2020, the Spanish Sustainable Development Solutions Network launched the 2nd edition of the Spanish Cities Index. A set of 106 indicators allows for monitoring the implementation of the SDGs at the local level for Spanish cities. The objective is to perform a statistical audit to evaluate the consistency of the indicators and the impact of modelling assumptions on the result. The methodology used is an adaptation of the Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicator prepared by the Europea...
Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain.... more Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain. Ecology and Society, 24(2), [10].
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to outline the scientific production in Portuguese universities in enviro... more Purpose This paper aims to outline the scientific production in Portuguese universities in environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). It takes doctoral theses presented in public universities as reference, assuming that, in Higher Education, the production of doctoral theses is a key beacon of the scientific development in academic fields of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The theses selected were subject to documentary and content analyses. Findings The results allow the identification of research trends and the recognition of detached aspects, such as the influence of the UN Decade of ESD in the research themes and the clear preponderance of a qualitative-led research tradition. Originality/value This paper provides an original and extensive review of PhD studies on EE and ESD in Portuguese public universities.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been steadily progressing towards the integration of su... more Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been steadily progressing towards the integration of sustainable practices in their structures and operations. Several studies have reported the variety of drivers of change and the barriers to change that universities have found in the integration process. The present investigation is aimed at further characterizing and ranking the drivers for, and barriers of, sustainability integration in HEIs within their structures and operating functions. Open-ended expert opinion interviews of key sustainability leaders appointed at 45 HEIs from 10 Latin-American countries were conducted in order to learn lessons from their diverse experiences of the process. Additionally, a thematic workshop on HEI sustainability was organized to facilitate further discussions between 23 sustainability scholars and/or national coordinators of university networks from 11 Latin American countries. As a result, 15 barriers were identified as hindering the institutionali...
Autores. Editado por la AEET. [Ecosistemas no se hace responsable del uso indebido de material su... more Autores. Editado por la AEET. [Ecosistemas no se hace responsable del uso indebido de material sujeto a derecho de autor]
El desarrollo sostenible constituye hoy una prioridad de las agendas políticas internacionales qu... more El desarrollo sostenible constituye hoy una prioridad de las agendas políticas internacionales que ha ido ganando adhesiones progresivas, no exentas de críticas, y que han ido concretándose en normativas y en convenios mundiales específicos tales como Biodiversidad, Cambio Climático, Bosques, Agua, Suelos, Educación... Estas iniciativas están contribuyendo a una mayor convergencia mundial sobre los instrumentos de planificación socioambiental, aun a sabiendas de que la base de la organización, de la producción y del consumo de las sociedades más desarrolladas abriga un sinfín de contradicciones en cuyo seno se ha gestado el concepto de crisis ambiental, que abarca no sólo cuestiones relativas al agotamiento de recursos, al efecto invernadero, a la contaminación de mares y al desequilibrio general de los ecosistemas, sino también desigualdades económicas, pobreza, dispar distribución de recursos, conflictos bélicos, equidad y justicia social. La iniciativa llevada a cabo por la unesc...
La década avanza en tiempo real. Ahora que ya estamos plenamente instalados en el nuevo siglo, en... more La década avanza en tiempo real. Ahora que ya estamos plenamente instalados en el nuevo siglo, en el siglo que algunos científicos como Ramón Margaleff, artistas como Eduardo Chillida, literatos como Günter Gras, políticos como Al Gore, teólogos como Leonardo Boff, o naturalistas como Joaquín Araujo, han catalogado como el Siglo de la Ecología, seguimos buscando ideas motrices que nos permitan construir mundos a nuestra medida, mundos pensados y construidos a escala humana, y escalas humanas dotadas de instrumentos tecnológicos, científicos y artísticos para cambiar el mundo que tenemos sin destruir el que deseamos. Es muy posible que el discurso de la sostenibilidad se haya instalado con estas intenciones, pero hemos de exigirle resultados, evidencias y pruebas convincentes. Con el eslogan Decenio de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, se pretende avanzar hacia modelos de organización social, económica y política más igualitarios y equitativos, más ecológicos, más humanos, ...
There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how... more There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how to connect them in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper's aim is to provide deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences, as well as how these interrelate. A survey was developed to investigate sustainability teaching in 15 HEIs. The survey was sent to educators of each HEI from which 668 responses were obtained. The responses were analysed in a five‐step process: (1) descriptive statistics; (2) Pearson correlations; (3) principal component analyses (PCAs) to detect groups; (4) Pearson correlations between the groups; and (5) regressions. The first step provided the base to carry out the PCAs, from which three groups for the pedagogical approaches (Universal, Social, and Environmental) and three for the sustainability competences (Extrospective‐social, Introspective‐personal, and Cogitative‐processual) were obtained. The correl...
A integracion dos instrumentos sociais na xestion ambiental e un capitulo ainda pendiente. Neste ... more A integracion dos instrumentos sociais na xestion ambiental e un capitulo ainda pendiente. Neste artigo describense alguns dos problemas e as posibles solucions nun camino de aprendizaxe mutuo entre educacion e xestion.
EDUCATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE-TEST DE PAIRES D'IMAGES. RESUME: On décrit les avantages que présente ... more EDUCATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE-TEST DE PAIRES D'IMAGES. RESUME: On décrit les avantages que présente l'utilisation de techniques basées sur le choix d'images couplées pour analyser les modifications d'attitudes envers l'environnement manifestées par des groupes de sujets qui participent à des différents programmes d'éducation environnementale. SUMMARY : We describe the advantages of using the analysis of preferences of paired images for the assessment of environmental attitude changes induced by environmental education programmes.
In 2017, the United Nations adopted a global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator framew... more In 2017, the United Nations adopted a global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator framework, calling on member countries to collect complementary national and regional indicators. Cities are crucial to channelling efforts towards sustainability through the use of these indicators. They provide an integrated approach to the city situation monitoring sustainability. However, more research is needed to understand how to adapt the goals, targets and indicators to specific municipal contexts. In 2020, the Spanish Sustainable Development Solutions Network launched the 2nd edition of the Spanish Cities Index. A set of 106 indicators allows for monitoring the implementation of the SDGs at the local level for Spanish cities. The objective is to perform a statistical audit to evaluate the consistency of the indicators and the impact of modelling assumptions on the result. The methodology used is an adaptation of the Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicator prepared by the Europea...
Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain.... more Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain. Ecology and Society, 24(2), [10].
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to outline the scientific production in Portuguese universities in enviro... more Purpose This paper aims to outline the scientific production in Portuguese universities in environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). It takes doctoral theses presented in public universities as reference, assuming that, in Higher Education, the production of doctoral theses is a key beacon of the scientific development in academic fields of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The theses selected were subject to documentary and content analyses. Findings The results allow the identification of research trends and the recognition of detached aspects, such as the influence of the UN Decade of ESD in the research themes and the clear preponderance of a qualitative-led research tradition. Originality/value This paper provides an original and extensive review of PhD studies on EE and ESD in Portuguese public universities.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been steadily progressing towards the integration of su... more Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been steadily progressing towards the integration of sustainable practices in their structures and operations. Several studies have reported the variety of drivers of change and the barriers to change that universities have found in the integration process. The present investigation is aimed at further characterizing and ranking the drivers for, and barriers of, sustainability integration in HEIs within their structures and operating functions. Open-ended expert opinion interviews of key sustainability leaders appointed at 45 HEIs from 10 Latin-American countries were conducted in order to learn lessons from their diverse experiences of the process. Additionally, a thematic workshop on HEI sustainability was organized to facilitate further discussions between 23 sustainability scholars and/or national coordinators of university networks from 11 Latin American countries. As a result, 15 barriers were identified as hindering the institutionali...
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