- Title
- The unit-based sustainability assessment tool and its use in the UNEP mainstreaming environment and sustainability in African universities partnership
- Creator
- Togo, Muchaiteyi
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437409
- Identifier
- vital:73376
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4020-8194-1
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02375-5_15
- Description
- This paper reports on the development and use of a Unit-based Sustainability Assessment Tool (USAT) for establishing the status of Education for Sustainable Development initiatives and sustainable development practices in universities. The tool was developed for use in the Swedish/Africa International Training Programme (ITP) on ‘Education for Sustainable De-velopment in Higher Education’ and complements the UNEP Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability into African Universities (MESA) ‘Education for Sustainable Development Innovations Programmes for Universities in Africa’ materials. The USAT facilitates a quick assessment of the level of inte-gration of sustainability issues in university functions and op-erations, both to benchmark sustainability initiatives and identi-fy new areas for action or improvement. It is based on a unit-based framework which allows for sustainability assessments to be done per division, unit, department, or faculty within uni-versities. Collectively, the unit-based assessments provide for development of an institution wide picture of university sus-tainability.
- Format
- 29 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Togo, M. and Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2013. The unit-based sustainability assessment tool and its use in the UNEP mainstreaming environment and sustainability in African universities partnership. In Sustainability Assessment Tools in Higher Education Institutions: Mapping Trends and Good Practices Around the World (pp. 259-288). Cham: Springer International Publishing
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