Sustainability Assessment Tools in Higher Education Institutions

1. Sustainability Science and Education for Sustainable Development in Universities: A Way for Transition.- 2. Being scared is not enough! Motivators for Education for Sustainable Development.- 3. Time and sustainability metrics in higher education.- 4. Integrating sustainability into the university: past, present and future.- 5. Sustainability assessment methodologies.- 6. A strategy and a toolkit to realize System Integration of Sustainable Development (SISD).- 7. Assessing Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. Assessment Frameworks explained.- 8. Alternative University Appraisal (AUA): Reconstructing Universities Ranking and Rating toward a Sustainable Future.- 9. Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education: Evaluating the Use of the Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education (AISHE) in Belgium.- 10. Perspectives on sustainability governance from universities in the US, UK and Germany: How do change agents employ different tools to alter organizational cultures and structures?.- 11. Developing a university sustainability report: Experiences from the University of Leeds.- 12. A whole sector approach: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Wales.- 13. Integration of Operational and Academic Efforts in Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions.- 14. An Indicator-Based Approach to Sustainability Monitoring and Mainstreaming at Universiti Sains Malaysia.- 15. The Unit-based Sustainability Assessment Tool and its use in the UNEP Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities partnership.- 16. A Syllabus for Resilience in Higher Education.- 17. A Discipline-Based Model for Embedding Sustainability in University Curricula.- 18. A Methodology for Reorienting University Curricula to Address Sustainability: The RUCAS-Tempus Project Initiative.- 19. The Low Carbon Curriculum at the University of Newcastle, Australia.- 20. Assessing sustainability in university curricula: Case

Sandra Sofia Caeiro holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering from New University of Lisbon (1992), a Masters in Science of Coastal Zones from University of Aveiro (1997) and an Doctorate on Environmental Engineering from the New University of Lisbon (2004), Portugal. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at Universidade Aberta (UAb) and a senior researcher at CENSE - Center for Sustainability and Environmental Research from New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her main research and teaching areas include environmental risk assessment, environmental and spatial planning management tools, environmental citizenship and participation, sustainable consumption and e-learning in science education. She is the former coordinator of the B.Sc. program on Environmental Sciences and of the Master Program in Environmental Citizenship and Participation at UAb, and currently the institutional coordinator of the European Virtual Seminar in Sustainable Development. She is on the editorial board of the international journal of Ocean and Coastal Management, Elsevier and reviewer of several international scientific journals.Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, FRGS, FRSA, FIBiol) is a trained biologist has a PhD and a DSc in environmental technology, plus honorary doctorates (DL, DPhil, DL) in environmental information. He is the Director of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, where he is in charge of a number of European projects. He has authored, co-authored or edited over 70 books on the subjects of environment, technology and innovation and has in excess of 200 published papers to his credit. Professor Leal Filho is also the editor of the Journal "Environmental Management and Health" and founding editor of the "International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education". He is a member of the editorial board of "Biomedical and