TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnsen,Hans ChrGarmann
AU  - Torjesen,Stina
AU  - Ennals,Richard
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Higher Education in a Sustainable Society: A Case for Mutual Competence Building 
T2  - CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance,
SN  - 9783319159195
AV  - HF5387-HF5387.5 
U1  - 174.4 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - business
KW  - Business ethics
KW  - Political Economy
KW  - Educational Policy
KW  - ducation and state
KW  - Educational sociology
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Education and sociology
KW  - Sociology, Educational
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Business Ethics
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Sociology of Education
N1  - Introduction -- Part 1: Sustainability in a humanistic and cultural perspective -- Part 2: Sustainability in life science -- Part 3: Sustainability in technology and planning studies -- Part 4: Sustainability and the teaching of management and business development -- Part 5: The sustainable university -- Conclusions
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15919-5
ER  -