
Promotion of Sustainable Development at Universities: The Adoption of Green Campus Strategies at the University of Southern Santa Catarina, Brazil
2016; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-319-47868-5_29
ISSN2199-7381
AutoresJoão Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro, Samuel Borges Barbosa, Jacir Leonir Casagrande, Simone Sehnem, Issa Ibrahim Berchin, Camilla Gomes da Silva, Ana Clara Medeiros da Silveira, Gabriel Alfredo Alves Zimmer, Rafael Ávila Faraco, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra,
Tópico(s)Environmental Education and Sustainability
ResumoUniversities, as knowledge institutions, play an important and strategic role on maximizing the social and economic benefits of new ideas. This paper aims to analyze the main sustainable practices of a Green Campus and subsequently points out the guidelines to implement a sustainable environmental management in the University of Southern Santa Catarina, Brazil, involving academic activities and the Campus infrastructure. The University of Southern Santa Catarina has been developing global partnerships encouraging the scientific production and sustainability practices to make it an example of Green Campus in South America.
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