Timeline of
Calls for Higher Education to Take the Lead in Fostering Sustainability
Robert Turner, 6/16/22
More complete bibliographies with
full citations here and here.
1990 - The Talloires Declaration – Association of University Leaders
for a Sustainable Future
1991 - What Is Education For? Six Myths
About the Foundations of Modern Education, and Six New Principles to Replace
Them – David Orr
1995 - The Essex Report: Workshop on the
Principles of Sustainability in Higher Education – The President's Council on
Sustainable Development
1998 - A Strategy to Accelerate the Shift to
Sustainability through Higher Education – University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
2002 - “Sustainability” in Higher Education:
From Doublethink and Newspeak to Critical Thinking and Meaningful Learning – Arjen Wals
and Bob Jickling
2002 - Environmental Literacy and
Sustainability as Core Requirements: Success Stories and Models – Debra Rowe
2003 - The Critical Role of Higher Education
in Creating a Sustainable Future – Anthony Cortese
2004 - Higher Education, Sustainability, and
the Role of Systemic Learning – Stephen Sterling
2006 - American College & University
President's Climate Commitment – Second Nature
2008 - A Call to Action: Core Commitments – Association of American Colleges
and Universities
2009 - Sustainability as an Organizing
Principle for Higher Education – Tom Kelly
2010 - Sustainability Curriculum in Higher
Education: A Call to Action – The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher
Education
2011 - Climate Change Starter’s Guidebook:
An Issues Guide for Education Planners and Practitioners – United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
2011 - Higher Education’s Role in Adapting
to a Changing Climate
– Second Nature and the American College & University Presidents’ Climate
Commitment
2011 - Higher Education in the World 4 –
Higher Education’s Commitment with Sustainability: From Understanding to Action – Global University Network for
Innovation
2011 - The Urgent Need for Universities to
Comprehensively Address Global Climate Change Across Disciplines and Programs – John Lemons
2012 - The Education We Need for the World
We Want – RIO +20
Education Group
2012 - Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on
Higher Education –
Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties
2012 - What Colleges and Universities Need
to Do to Advance Civic Scientific Literacy and Preserve American Democracy – Jon Miller
2013 - Teaching for Turbulence – Michael Maniantes
2014 - Nagoya Declaration on Higher
Education for Sustainable Development – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
2014 - The Greening Universities Toolkit
V2.0 – United
Nations Environment Programme
2014 - Higher Education for Strong
Sustainability –
Rick Clugston and Wynn Calder
2014 - Universities as Potential Actors for
Sustainable Development – Michael von Hauff and Thuan
Nguyen
2014 - How Universities Can Help Create a
Wiser World: The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution – Nicholas Maxwell
2014 - Integrating Environmental
Sustainability into Universities – Meredith Ralph and Wendy Stubbs
2016 - How to Do Transition in your
University or College
– Transition Network
2016 - Barriers
in Restructuring University Curriculum for a Sustainable Future –
Chakraborty et al.
2017 - Higher Education in the World 6 -
Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local – Global University Network for
Innovation
2017 - Sustainability as the Organizing
Principle for Service-Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) – The SLCE Future Directions Project
2017 - Education for A Sustainable Future,
Benchmarks: For Individual and Social Learning – Jamie Cloud
2017 - EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing
Planet – Erik Assadourian
2017 - Can We Meet the Sustainability
Challenges? The Role of Education and Lifelong Learning – Arjen Wals
and Aaron Benavot
2017 - Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles
to the Implementation of Sustainable Development at Universities – Walter Filho et al.
2018 - Facing the Climate Change
Catastrophe: Education as Solution or Cause? – Network for International Policies and Cooperation
in Education and Training
2018 - Mobilising Different Conversations About Global Justice in
Education: Toward Alternative Futures in Uncertain Times – Andreotti, V et
al.
2019 - Taking Action on Climate Crisis: An Urgent Call to Educators
- Educators for Climate Action
2019 - Sustainable Development Primer for
Higher Education Presidents, Chancellors, Trustees and Senior Leaders – The Higher Education Associations
Sustainability Consortium
2019 - Higher Education Sustainability
Initiative (HESI) –
Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform, United Nations
2019 - Higher and Further Education
Institutions Across the Globe Declare Climate Emergency – The Alliance for Sustainability
Leadership in Education, Second Nature and the UN Environment’s Youth and
Education Alliance
2019 - Adapting Universities and Colleges to
a Changing Climate: Making the Case and Taking Action – The Alliance for Sustainability
Leadership in Education
2019 - EI Statement on Student Action on
Climate Change –
Education International
2019 - Open Letter to Vice-Chancellors, UUK
and UKRI – Help Us Take Action on Climate Change Now – TransitionLab.Earth
2019 - Action Plan 2019-2020 – Copernicus Alliance
2019 - Sustainability in Higher Education:
What More Can Universities Do? – QS Quacquarelli Symonds
2019 - Rethinking
the Modern University – Marcus Ford
2019 - Greta is Coming: Sterling College
President Stands with Students Across the World – Matthew Derr
2019 - Bildung in the 21st Century—Why Sustainable
Prosperity Depends Upon Reimagining Education – Jonathan Rowson
2019 - Building
New Foundations: The Future of Education from a Degrowth Perspective –
Nadine Kaufmann, Christoph Sanders and Julian Wortmann
2020 - Strengthening Sustainability Programs
and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels – Committee on Strengthening
Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels
2020 - The Role of Education in Taming
Authoritarian Attitudes – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
2020 - Sustainability Competences: A
Systematic Literature Review – Publications Office of the European Union
2020 - The Little Book of Green Nudges: 40
Nudges to Spark Sustainable Behaviour on Campus – United Nations Environment Programme, GRIDArendal and Behavioural Insights Team
2020 - The Role of Universities in a
Sustainable Society. Why Value-Free Research is Neither Possible Nor Desirable – Markus Volgt and Christoph Weber
2020 - Democracy Is Under Duress – Valerie Smith and Jonathan Alger
2020 - Conceptualizing
Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education – Hadjichambis,
A et al.
2020 - From
“Education for Sustainable Development” to “Education for the End of the World
as We Know It” – Stein, S et al.
2020 - Transforming
the University to Confront the Climate Crisis, Part 1 – John Foran
2021 - Education for Action: How Adapting
Our Learning Can Tip the Climate Scales in 2021 – Green Growth Knowledge Platform
2021 - The Planetary Health Education
Framework – The
Planetary Health Alliance
2021 - Beyond Doom and Gloom: Climate
Solutions –
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
2021 - Race to Zero for Universities and
Colleges – The
Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education, The United Nations
Environment Programme, and Second Nature
2021 - Global Climate Letter for Universities and Colleges – The United Nations Environment Programme
2021 - Higher Education – The U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable
Development
2021 - Global Learning and Intercultural
Competence as Imperatives for the Future of Higher Education: Reducing
inequities and creating effective global problem-solvers - Association of International
Education Administrators (AIEA) to the UNESCO Futures of Education initiative
2021 - The Pedagogy
of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want - Great Transition
Initiative
2021 - Current Climate Education is
Inadequate – Teach
the Future
2021 - The Task of Education as
We Confront the Potential for Social and Ecological Collapse – Vanessa
Andreotti
2021 - Educating
for the Future We Want – Stephen Sterling
2021 - A New
Agenda for Higher Ed – David Orr
2021 - Fostering
Institutional Sustainability Out of the Pandemic: The Role of Teaching Centers
and Faculty Developers - Kelsey Biting, Chelsie Romulo, Robert Turner, and Scott
Wertz