UWS Sustainability Framework

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Greening UWS

Universities and colleges worldwide are now recognising their central role in addressing the challenges of sustainability. In response many educational institutions are rapidly advancing a suite of collaborations, strategies, programs and curricula pathways.

The focus is on how to effectively embed the key issues of social, economic and environmental sustainability into the three areas of core university business – teaching, research and engagement. The university campus itself presents a rich space for engaged learning and research through partnership and engagement with real world dilemmas.

Consequently there is a growing trend in Australia to see the university as a model, teacher and learner where the campus becomes a living laboratory for sustainability. UWS believes it can meet the new imperative by producing ethically robust graduates with practical intelligence and a mind for real world practice. In order to understand the options for effective implementation there is a need for an overall framework.

Each of the major UWS sustainability activities that are outlined on this website below fit neatly into the below Australian University Framework for Sustainability.

 Sustainability Framework

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Geoffrey Scott 2010) 

 

 

In October 2010, UWS undertook a stocktake of social, economic and environmental Sustainability in our curriculum, research, operations and engagement activities using this framework. For more information, please see Stocktake of Sustainability at UWS (opens in a new window) (PDF, 155Kb).

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