期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 7, 期 9, 页码 11799-11817出版社
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/su70911799
关键词
university sustainability; education for sustainable development; green university; Indiana University; Tsinghua University; United States; China
资金
- Collaborative Innovation Center for New Urbanization and Social Governance in Jiangsu Province
- Philosophy and Social Science Research Project of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions [2015SJB142]
It is widely accepted that universities can play critical roles in promoting sustainability. In the United States and China, many universities have initiated sustainability programs. Employing Indiana University, Bloomington, the U.S. (IUB) and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Tsinghua) as two cases, we examine the conceptualization and implementation of university sustainability programs through a comparison of their respective definitions, goals, organizational dynamics, and strategies. We find that IUB's sustainability scheme is more detailed and specific, while Tsinghua's is more general; this is principally attributable to differences in national and local contexts. Furthermore, IUB values the environmental, economic, and social aspects of university sustainability equally, while Tsinghua focuses more on the environmental aspect. In addition, IUB has a more loosely-structured and more inclusive sustainability organizational dynamic while Tsinghua has a more hierarchical one. This comparative study helps us to understand how these two research universities understand and implement sustainability within the respective cultural, political, and institutional contexts of the United States and China.
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