Higher Education for Sustainable Development Goals by Carolin... - 9788770224314

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Higher Education for Sustainable Development GoalsAuthor(s): Carolina Machado, Joo Paulo Davim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: River Publishers, Denmark\nImprint: River Publishers\nISBN-13: 9788770224314, 978-8770224314\nSynopsis\nThis book looks to cover the issues related to advances in higher education for sustainable development goals. Nowadays, sustainable development is an important concept in higher education. One of the most widely recognized definitions is based in the Brundtland report as \""development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.\"" The three core pillars of sustainable development are environment, society and economy. Currently, higher education in the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs) is a great challenge. The information about higher education for sustainable development presents great interest to improve communication between professors, researches and students in universi.