Introduction to Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in

Introduction to Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Higher Education

Learning Outcomes Participants will be able to: • visualise and verbalise the concept of sustainability; • respond to sustainability issues in both their personal and professional life.

Session Programme This session will consider: • what sustainable development means; • how to implement sustainable development in HE; • how to take action through our professional roles.

The Lifestyle Quiz

Unequal Footprints UK: 5. 35 hectares Bangladesh: 0. 53 hectares Global Average: 2. 28 hectares Source: WWF Living Planet Report 2002

An Option We Don’t Have

Just One Planet Earth

A Sustainable Development Model economic limits social limits environmental limits

Defining Sustainable Development “Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” UN World Commission on Environment and Development 1987

Alternative SD Definitions Doing things in a way that means our children and our children’s children can enjoy a good quality of life. Making decisions as though we were going to be here forever.

Sustainable Development Model 2 environmental healthy efficient sustainable social economic fair

Sustainability in Higher Education Sustainability is a paradigm shift: “Sustainability does not simply require an 'add-on' to existing structures and curricula, but implies a change of fundamental epistemology in our culture and our educational thinking and practice. ” Sterling, 2004, 50

Whole Institution Approach Sustainable Institutions Partnerships in Sustainability Education for Sustainable Development Sustainability and Research

An Holistic Approach www. schumachercollege. org. uk

Institutional Sustainability Quick return on investment: • energy and water • recycling and resource use • • • transport biodiversity procurement building regulations financial management

An Example of Good Practice Adam Joseph Lewis Centre for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, USA www. oberlin. edu/ajlc. Home. html

ESD and the Curriculum 3 approaches: • embed ESD throughout all teaching in an institution • offer SD as a ‘discipline’ • offer generic or specialised modules for all students

University of Basle: a model • • • major/minor scheme open to all students transdisciplinary different methodologies other disciplines own discipline sustainability multidisciplinary teams ‘real life’ final year project www. programm-mgu. ch/de/home. html

Engaging with Sustainability is a process. We co-create the world in everything we do each day. What you do is less important than starting the process.

Visioning a Sustainable University In groups consider: a) 3 changes you would like to see at your institution b) how you can contribute to these changes

Creating a Sustainable University • looking 5 years ahead or ten years from now? • postcard exercise • 3 things we can each do over the next 6 months

Continuing with Sustainability Thinking critically, creatively and long-term: And doing something! Celebrating what we can do. Supporting each other – contact list!