Introduction to

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• Introduction to
• Sustainable Development
• and Global Citizenship
• in Higher Education

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Session Programme

• This session will consider
• what sustainable development actually means
• how to implement sustainable development in HE
• how to take action through our professional roles.

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• Just One
• Planet Earth

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Ecological Footprints
UK 5.35 hectares
Bangladesh 0.53 hectares
Global Average 2.28 hectares
Source WWF Living Planet Report 2002
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An Option We Dont Have
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Defining Sustainable Development
Development which meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs UN World
Commission on Environment and Development 1987
Making decisions as though we were going to be
here forever.
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Sustainable Development Model
healthy
efficient
sustainable
fair
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Sustainability in Higher Education
Sustainability is a paradigm shift

• Sustainability does not simply require an
  'add-on' to existing structures and curricula,
• but implies a change of fundamental epistemology
  in
• our culture and our educational thinking and
  practice.
• Sterling, 2004, 50

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Whole Institution Approach
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Engaging with Sustainability

• Sustainability is a process.
• We co-create the world in everything we do each
  day.
• What you do is less important than starting the
  process.

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Continuing with Sustainability
Thinking critically, creatively and long-term

• And doing something!
• Celebrating what we can do.
• Supporting each other
• contact list!