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Higher education for today and tomorrow: university appraisal for diversity, innovation and change towards sustainable development 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
This article serves as a position paper of a consortium of universities in the Asia–Pacific region working to address challenges of sustainable development and rapidly changing social, economic and natural environments. Member universities of ProSPER.Net (Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research Network) have embarked on a project to develop an alternative university appraisal system that would potentially become a viable alternative to the existing higher education ranking and assessment systems perceived as constraining, yet, powerful. The article discusses the changing landscape for knowledge creation and the need for universities to assume new roles in a new kind of modernity—variously termed as “liquid modernity” (Z. Bauman), “reflexive modernization” (U. Beck) or other neologisms. It recognises that the mainstream ranking and assessment systems are powerful guiding systems for higher education institutions (HEIs) and, if modified, could be a significant force for transformation towards a more sustainable future. Recognising the need for HEIs to address societal challenges and needs, the Alternative University Appraisal (AUA) project of ProSPER.Net starts by reviewing existing models of recognition and appraisal of various aspects of HEIs’ work and aims at creating space for individual and collective reflection on HEI practices and outcomes. In addition to extensive consultations among ProSPER.Net members, as well as with other higher education actors and international organisations addressing higher education for sustainability, cross-sectoral consultations, assessments of the uncertainties and pertinent trends, and engagement with policy-making processes would be required for the AUA system to become a guiding force that shapes higher education of today and tomorrow. 相似文献
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Bakhmet IN Fokina NN Nefedova ZA Nemova NN 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2009,155(1-4):581-591
Bivalves have a known ability to accumulate different contaminants from ambient water and can therefore serve as bioindicators. The paper analyses certain biochemical and physiological parameters of blue mussels in response to varying oil product concentrations. The heart rate (HR) of blue mussels from the sublittoral zone exposed to different levels of oil products was investigated in a long-term experiment using non-invasive monitoring. A sharp rise in HR was observed at oil concentrations of 8.0 and 38.0 mg/l. A decreasing in mussel HR under the effect of lower concentrations (0.4 and 1.9 mg/l) was significant on the fourth day. Strong fluctuations of the cardiac activity were noted under all concentrations. After 6 days of oil treatment, tissues of the mussels were sampled to determine the total lipid composition. Low concentrations of oil products produced no reliable changes in the lipid composition whereas high concentrations induced significant changes in the ratio of lipid components (cholesterol and phospholipids). 相似文献
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N. G. Smirnov E. A. Kuz’mina I. B. Golovachev T. V. Fadeeva 《Russian Journal of Ecology》2007,38(2):106-111
On the basis of abundant fossil and subfossil bone remains, the ecological and faunal role of the narrow-skulled vole in zonal
rodent communities of northern Eurasia is analyzed over the period from the Late Pleistocene to the present time. Special
attention is given to the correlated dynamics of relative abundance of Microtus gregalis and other rodent species in the course of transition from one zonal type to another and to specific features of this correlation
in the southern, middle, and northern parts of the species range. It is shown that distinctive dimensional and morphotypic
features of the two currently existing subspecies, Microtus gregalis major Ogn. and M. g. gregalis Pall., are the product of concordant development of the species and environmental conditions in the past 3000–4000 years
(transition from the Holocene optimum to the present-day climate and state of the natural environment).
Published in Russian in Ekologiya, 2007, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 117–123.
The article was translated by the authors. 相似文献
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Roger A. Petry Zinaida Fadeeva Olga Fadeeva Helen Hassl?f ?sa Hellstr?m Jos Hermans Yoko Mochizuki Kerstin Sonesson 《Sustainability Science》2011,6(1):83-96
This paper examines how education for sustainable development (ESD) can be concretely advanced using the theoretical approaches
of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and sustainable livelihoods (SL). Five case examples illustrate a diverse
set of strategic educational interventions focusing on: (1) education of specific organizational actors about these theoretical
frameworks illustrated with case examples (such as SCP training by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
[UNU-IAS] and CSR-Asia of government and business representatives), (2) regional education strategies focused on production
and consumption in specific sectors (such as the food sector in Sk?ne, Sweden), (3) social learning directed at innovation
for sustainable development (such as competitions of solar boats developed by universities in the region of Friesland, the
Netherlands), (4) education of consumers and firms made possible by the adoption of certification systems affirming SCP and
SL (such as Cradle-to-Cradle certification of a paper company in the Netherlands or the establishment of Fair Trade cities
in Sweden), or (5) reorienting communities to address underutilized productive physical capital within communities (such as
the sharing productive capital project in rural areas of Saskatchewan, Canada). The cases are drawn from the projects that
the UNU-IAS, four of its regional centers of expertise (RCE) on ESD and other affiliates have conducted. In addition to documenting
the educational processes emerging from specific regions, the paper highlights findings related to the success of these projects
and opportunities for further research, including regional and inter-regional approaches. 相似文献
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