Higher education in a sustainable society [electronic resource] : a case for mutual competence building / Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen, Stina Torjesen, Richard Ennals, editors.

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Higher education in a sustainable society [electronic resource] : a case for mutual competence building / Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen, Stina Torjesen, Richard Ennals, editors.

9783319159195 electronic book
3319159194 electronic book
9783319159188

Cham : Springer, [2015]

©2015

English

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10.1007/978-3-319-15919-5 doi

LB2324

333.70711

This book addresses the following question: What is a sustainable society, and how can higher education help us to develop toward it? The core argument put forward is that the concept of sustainability reaches much farther than just the direct aspects of environmental threats and carbon emissions. Using higher education as a point of departure, the book shows that sustainability involves a broad range of disciplines, from nursing and nutrition to technology and management. It argues that a sustainable society entails a distinct perspective on society that influences our social thinking in terms of ethics, democracy and knowledge development. The book also discusses if (and if so, how) higher education can and should contribute to such a development based on the principles of the freedom of science in a liberal, democratic society. The book presents Mutual Competence Building as a concept higher education can adapt in order to contribute to a sustainable Society.

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CSR. sustainability. ethics & governance.

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