Environmental challenges for higher education
Subtitle: integrating sustainability into academic programs
By: edited by Robert L. Wixom ... [et al.] ; a project for educators by Friends Association for Higher Education and Friends Committee on Unity with Nature ; supported by the Shaw-North Foundation.
Contributors: Wixom, Robert L.; Friends Committee on Unity with Nature.; Friends Association for Higher Education (U.S.)
Publisher: Friends Committee on Unity with Nature
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Environmental education.; Environmental responsibility -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Other titles: Integrating sustainability into academic programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of papers presented at the symposium "Sustainable Development in Higher Education : a Challenge for Educators by the Year 2000," June 25, 1994, William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Lisa L. Gould; title: Foreword / Robert L. Wixom; title: The continuing UNCED vision and process / Stephen Collett; title: Environmental principles for the garden / Robert L. Wixom; title: New markets and new commons : opportunities in the global casino / Hazel Henderson; title: A resources approach to sustainability / William L. Howenstine; title: Population concerns for higher education : a Friend's perspective / Stanley Becker; title: Geologic time and sustainability / M. Patrick McAdams; title: Seeking sustainability : community-based resource management in North America / Ted Bernard and Jora Young; title: Live richly and simply : learning from Kerala / William M. Alexander; title: Integrated rural development and sustainability : lessons from Honduras for liberal arts colleges / Leonard Brown; title: Global change from the grassroots up / Kathryn W. Hansen; title: Reaching students on sustainable development : inside and beyond the classroom / Robert L. Wixom; title: The spiritual basis for sustainable development / Sally B. Merrill; title: Sustainability models in two novels and other literature / Susan Schmidt; title: Synthesis of religious faiths and sustainable development / Robert L. Wixom; title: Purposes and goals of Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE) and Friends Committee on Unity with Nature (FCUN); title: Twenty-seven principles of the Earth charter; title: Agenda 21 contents; title: Principles on population and development; title: Principles of the President's Council on Sustainability and Development; title: Message to the academic community; title: The Talloires declaration; title: Worlds scientists' warning to humanity; title: Religious organizations with an environmental emphasis.