Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

In the past two decades, institutions of higher education around the world have increasingly acknowledged the importance of integrating sustainability into campus projects, operations, and management (Savanick et al., 2006). With the expansion of world population today, there has been a rapid increase in the population of university and college campuses. The environmental movement has concern about the environmental costs associated with many materials this involves including such innovations as plastics, synthetic chemicals, nuclear energy, and the increasing use of fossil fuels, which have transformed our society and our campuses today. In order to protect our campuses and to maintain effective sustainable management strategies in the name of quality of life on our campuses and for the protection of our planet in general, these issues must be carefully considered. They make us live in a challenging world with a fractured, unsustainable society and economy. In response to a growing need to move the campuses and the world toward sustainable development and sustainable practices, this study focuses on strategies that campuses need to adopt to maintain a sensible and effective sustainable management. In other words, a framework for strategically prioritizing campus sustainability work that is highly needed today.