Tarah Wright
Dalhousie University
55 Papers
382 Citations
Tarah Wright is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Sustainable development. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 55 publications. Previous affiliations of Tarah Wright include Halifax & University of Antwerp.
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Papers
Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education
TL;DR: This article reviewed definitions and frameworks for sustainability in higher education by examining a set of major national and international declarations and institutional policies related to environmental sustainability in universities and identified emerging themes and priorities, and discussed how these declarations and policies are affecting various institutions in how they frame the central task of becoming sustainable and how they perceive their own commitment to sustainability.
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Sustainability assessment and indicators: Tools in a decision-making strategy for sustainable development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that to move beyond the rhetoric and to actually realize sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy and demonstrate that sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators can be powerful decision-supporting tools that foster sustainable development by addressing three sustainability decision making challenges: interpretation, information-structuring, and influence.
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Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education
TL;DR: The authors reviewed definitions and frameworks for sustainability in higher education by examining a set of major national and international declarations and institutional policies related to environmental sustainability in universities and identified emerging themes and priorities, and discussed how these declarations and policies are affecting various institutions in how they frame the central task of becoming sustainable and how they perceive their own commitment to sustainability.
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Sustainable development : a bird's eye view
TL;DR: In this article, a bird's eye view of sustainability is presented, with a specific focus on the terminology, genesis, fundamental principles, mainstream views of sustainability, and several governing aspects.
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University research for sustainable development: definition and characteristics explored
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define "university research for sustainable development" comprehensively as "all research conducted within the institutional context of a university that contributes to sustainable development " and propose a set of twenty two preliminary characteristics of this concept.
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