Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches
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Resumo: | Participatory approaches can be seen as a requirement, but also as a benefit to the overall paradigm change towards sustainable development and contribute towards the integration of sustainability concept into the university culture. So far, there have been comparatively few research studies on participation within sustainability implementation at university level, and a more differentiated understanding of these processes is still missing, both in the practice of conducting a participatory process and in the sustainability assessment. This paper addresses some of the failures and successes experienced within participatory approaches in campus sustainability initiatives, and deduces a set of critical success factors and emergent clusters that can help to integrate the dimensions of participation more inclusively into sustainability assessment. Following a qualitative approach and inspired by the Delphimethod, semi-structured expert interviews (N ¼ 15) and four focus group discussions (N ¼ 36), with participants coming from twenty different countries in total, were conducted and compared according to qualitative content analysis. Findings give empirical evidence to some of the characteristics related to stakeholder engagement, and associate higher education for sustainable development to empowerment and capacity building, shifting away from a previous focus on environmental sustainability. The success of participatory approaches is interdependent with structural institutional conditions and the persons engaged, highlighting the importance of specific skills and participatory competencies. A better integration of the dimensions of participation into sustainability assessment practices can help in defining and establishing participatory approaches on institutional level and fostering a culture of participation in the transition to sustainable universities. |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches(Public) participationStakeholder engagementCritical success factorsHigher education for sustainableDevelopment (HESD)Sustainability assessmentQualitative analysisODS::04:Educação de QualidadeODS::11:Cidades e Comunidades SustentáveisODS::12:Produção e Consumo SustentáveisODS::17:Parcerias para a Implementação dos ObjetivosParticipatory approaches can be seen as a requirement, but also as a benefit to the overall paradigm change towards sustainable development and contribute towards the integration of sustainability concept into the university culture. So far, there have been comparatively few research studies on participation within sustainability implementation at university level, and a more differentiated understanding of these processes is still missing, both in the practice of conducting a participatory process and in the sustainability assessment. This paper addresses some of the failures and successes experienced within participatory approaches in campus sustainability initiatives, and deduces a set of critical success factors and emergent clusters that can help to integrate the dimensions of participation more inclusively into sustainability assessment. Following a qualitative approach and inspired by the Delphimethod, semi-structured expert interviews (N ¼ 15) and four focus group discussions (N ¼ 36), with participants coming from twenty different countries in total, were conducted and compared according to qualitative content analysis. Findings give empirical evidence to some of the characteristics related to stakeholder engagement, and associate higher education for sustainable development to empowerment and capacity building, shifting away from a previous focus on environmental sustainability. The success of participatory approaches is interdependent with structural institutional conditions and the persons engaged, highlighting the importance of specific skills and participatory competencies. A better integration of the dimensions of participation into sustainability assessment practices can help in defining and establishing participatory approaches on institutional level and fostering a culture of participation in the transition to sustainable universities.Repositório AbertoDisterheft, AntjeCaeiro, SandraAzeiteiro, UlissesFilho, Walter Leal2021-09-29T10:11:07Z2015-112021-09-20T09:25:35Z2015-11-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/11138eng0959-6526cv-prod-258480410.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.030info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-16T15:37:59Zoai:repositorioaberto.uab.pt:10400.2/11138Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:50:36.491138Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches Disterheft, Antje (Public) participation Stakeholder engagement Critical success factors Higher education for sustainable Development (HESD) Sustainability assessment Qualitative analysis ODS::04:Educação de Qualidade ODS::11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis ODS::12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis ODS::17:Parcerias para a Implementação dos Objetivos |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Sustainable universities: a study of critical success factors for participatory approaches |
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Disterheft, Antje |
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Disterheft, Antje Caeiro, Sandra Azeiteiro, Ulisses Filho, Walter Leal |
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Caeiro, Sandra Azeiteiro, Ulisses Filho, Walter Leal |
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Repositório Aberto |
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Disterheft, Antje Caeiro, Sandra Azeiteiro, Ulisses Filho, Walter Leal |
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(Public) participation Stakeholder engagement Critical success factors Higher education for sustainable Development (HESD) Sustainability assessment Qualitative analysis ODS::04:Educação de Qualidade ODS::11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis ODS::12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis ODS::17:Parcerias para a Implementação dos Objetivos |
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(Public) participation Stakeholder engagement Critical success factors Higher education for sustainable Development (HESD) Sustainability assessment Qualitative analysis ODS::04:Educação de Qualidade ODS::11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis ODS::12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis ODS::17:Parcerias para a Implementação dos Objetivos |
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Participatory approaches can be seen as a requirement, but also as a benefit to the overall paradigm change towards sustainable development and contribute towards the integration of sustainability concept into the university culture. So far, there have been comparatively few research studies on participation within sustainability implementation at university level, and a more differentiated understanding of these processes is still missing, both in the practice of conducting a participatory process and in the sustainability assessment. This paper addresses some of the failures and successes experienced within participatory approaches in campus sustainability initiatives, and deduces a set of critical success factors and emergent clusters that can help to integrate the dimensions of participation more inclusively into sustainability assessment. Following a qualitative approach and inspired by the Delphimethod, semi-structured expert interviews (N ¼ 15) and four focus group discussions (N ¼ 36), with participants coming from twenty different countries in total, were conducted and compared according to qualitative content analysis. Findings give empirical evidence to some of the characteristics related to stakeholder engagement, and associate higher education for sustainable development to empowerment and capacity building, shifting away from a previous focus on environmental sustainability. The success of participatory approaches is interdependent with structural institutional conditions and the persons engaged, highlighting the importance of specific skills and participatory competencies. A better integration of the dimensions of participation into sustainability assessment practices can help in defining and establishing participatory approaches on institutional level and fostering a culture of participation in the transition to sustainable universities. |
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