Education, communications & training hub >
Contents below:
· Information & resources
· Multi-campus institutions
~ Alliances, consortia & networks
~ Initiatives
· Guides to environmental degrees in higher education
Also see:
· Science & research sector page
Information & resources
Higher Education Clean Energy Projects Map @ Second Nature
Periodicals
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
Case Studies in the Environment
Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education
International Journal of Higher Education Research
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Institutions
~ Associations ~
Association for the Advancement of Sustainabiity in Higher Education (AASHE)
· Centers for Sustainability Across the Curricuum
· Higher Education Associations Sustainabllity Consortium (HEASC)
· Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)
Association of American Universities
· Research to Secure or Energy Future
· Helping Solve the Fresh Water Puzzle
International Studies Association (ISA)
· Environmental Studies Section
~ Alliances, consortia & networks ~
Alliance for Sustainability Research in Education (EAUC) [UK & Ireland]
· Formerly "Fossil Free Research"
Community Colleges for Environmental Stewardship
· "....a consortium of liberal arts colleges dedicated to ecologically focused education, and to
modeling sustainability through their operations and facilities."
Environmental Leadership Program (ELP)
Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC)
Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI)
· "...a partnership between United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNESCO,
United Nations Environment, UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management
Education (PRME) initiative, United Nations University (UNU), UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD and
UNITAR, was created in 2012 in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development (Rio+20). With commitments from over 300 universities from around the world,
HESI accounted for more than one-third of all the voluntary commitments that were launched
at Rio+20. Through its strong association with the United Nations, HESI provides higher
education institutions with a unique interface between higher education, science, and policy
making.”
Intentional Endowments Network (IEN)
International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)
International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA)
Millenium Campus Network (MCN)
Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN)
· "...strives to help build a sustainable and positive global future through leadership networks in higher
education."
· All have carbon neutrality an climate resilience commitments made by presidents/chancellors
· Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments
· University Climate Change Coalition (UC3)
· Sustainability Indicator Management & Analysis Program (SIMAP)
Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN)
· “...unites sustainability community, institutes, students, and organizations to join forces in combating
climate change. Our platform allows users to post and share datasets, papers, conferences, job postings,
local events, and grants related to sustainability. These resources are categorized across various themes—
from solar energy and mining to circular economies.”
Sustainability Curriculum Consortium
· “...a consortium that builds our collective capacity as educators and change agents, along with the
administrators and stakeholders who can support them, to improve the ways sustainability is perceived,
modeled, and taught; that serves as a generator of principles, practices, and shared resources, to move
the 'education' component of higher education sustainability up to and beyond campus operations."
UK Universities Climate Network (UUCN)
UN Climate Change and Universities Partnership Programme
Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH)
· "...a transdisciplinary, multi-institutional network that equips students with real-world experience of
collaborative, evidence-based approaches to global environmental sustainability."
~ Intiatives ~
· "Mission: “...to be the most reliable and expansive advocate for environmental science education and
careers.”
Principles for Responsible Management Education
· "The purpose of the SDG Accord is twofold: First it is to inspire, celebrate and advance the critical
role that education has in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the value it
brings to governments, business and wider society. Secondly, the Accord is a commitment learning
institutions are making to one another to do more to deliver the goals, to annually report on each
signatory's progress, and to do so in ways which share the learning with each other both nationally
and internationally. An objective is that sector SDG reporting metrics will be presented at the annual
UN High Level Political Forum."
Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)
Youth Learning As Citizen Environmental Scientists (YLACES)
Guides to environmental degrees in higher education
Academic Programs database @ AASHE's Campus Sustainability Hub
· Listing includes several environment-related majors, some listed below
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology
Natural resources and conservation
Environmental Policy Programs @ US News & World Report
Environmental Management Degree Programs @ GradSchools.com
· "EnvironmentalScience.org's mission is to be the most reliable and expansive advocate for
environmental science education and careers."
· Contains searchable database of environmental degree programs.
Exploring graduate school @ SEAS-UM
· The listings here are comprehensive and go far beyond the “the environment” but it is well categorized
according to both topic and degree level. Before you dig in, look around for a while—a few minutes
of e-meandering around to see how the site is structured will pay off when it comes time for a real
search. Note that some programs will be highlighted after a search (this is the business model for the
site's profitability, I'm assuming), and that a full listing can be found by clicking on the "View all
programs" link.
Wikipedia maintains two listings:
· List of environmental degree-granting institutions
· List of environmental degree-granting institutions in the United States
· Both the Wikipedia entries and list below are very spotty & incomplete.
University green rankings
AASHE → Sustainable Campus Index
BestColleges.com → Greenest Universities
People & Planet → University League
Princeton Review
SaveOnEnergy → 2017 Green Report
Sierra Club → Cool Schools ranking
Times Higher Education → University Impact Ratings
TopUniversities.com → Ten Greenest Universities
Academic institutions
Climate-focused reources are highlighted