A5077369012- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- History of Science and Medicine
- Rural development and sustainability
- Global socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
College of Charleston
2014-2024
National University of Singapore
2023
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
2022
University of Florida
2008-2009
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis, one which also influences the ways sustainability is being taught at universities. This paper undertakes an analysis of extent to as whole and lockdown it triggered in particular, led suspension presence-based teaching universities worldwide influenced on matters related sustainable development. By means survey involving higher education institutions across all continents, study identified number patterns, trends problems. results from show...
Universities have an unrivaled potential to educate students on climate change issues and actively engage them in affairs, both as citizens influencers of future professions. Despite this the many advantages university student engagement change, less emphasis has been given understanding their attitude perceptions towards a way that may guide changes curriculum teaching practices. Based need address existing literature gap, article assesses studentś attitudes toward at international level....
Abstract Background This paper presents a review of the literature and trends related to social values sustainable development describes set case studies from variety community-based projects which illustrate advantages that bring about as part efforts promote sustainability. Three approaches were used develop this study: bibliometric analysis topic “social development”, an concretely present community addressing sustainability, framework linking up clusters cases studies. Results While...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe disturbances in the work of hundreds millions people around world. One groups affected is academic staff at higher education institutions, whose original business model, i.e., presence teaching, suddenly changed to online learning. This has, turn, exacerbated pre-existing problems such as shortage time, busy schedules, and challenges a work-life balance. Since plays key role respect teaching research, often acting leaders their fields, it important...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted the life of millions people around world and brought changes in many contexts. In higher education institutions, teaching staff had to quickly adapt their research practices revisit learning student engagement strategies. this context, paper aimed report on how lockdowns influenced work lives academic at universities. methodology consisted an online survey that collected 201 responses across 39 countries worldwide, results were explored using...
Teya Brooks Pribac, Enter the Animal: Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2021), 281 pp., $28, (pbk), ISBN: 9781743327395.
Sustainability reports are regarded as important tools in offering information about the environmental, social, economic, and institutional performance of an institution, demonstrating a commitment to matters related sustainable development. But even though sustainability reporting has been used by variety higher education institutions date, it is not widely practiced should be. To further investigate this topic, twofold approach was used: study focusing on approaches deployed sample 30...
Private universities also play a key role in the sustainability debate. But despite their importance, there shortage of research on how is being implemented at private universities. Based need to address this gap, paper investigates nature and diversity sustainability-based practices undertaken It outlines ways see perceive sustainability, examines by means survey involving 10 from across all geographical regions which educate over 150.000 students, these incorporate sustainability-related...
Journal Article "The Earth Is sui generis": Destabilizing the Climate of Our Field Get access Todd LeVasseur * *Todd LeVasseur, Department Religious Studies, College Charleston, 66 George Street, SC 29424, USA. E-mail: levasseurtj@cofc.edu. The author would like to thank Amir Hussain for his editorial work with entire round table, and this article; as well respectful, insightful, articulate comments offered by very knowledgeable peer reviewers. Finally, a personal thanks Bron Taylor initial...
The Transition Movement is based on the premise that dual threats of Peak Oil and anthropogenic climate change require humans to re-think re-design how they live, with focus becoming creation resilient, sustainable communities. first Town was created in Totnes, UK 2005, there are now Towns worldwide. Using qualitative research methods, we explore understudied affective, normative, religio-ethical motivations those engaged located Totnes. Our suggests guided by norms ethics ecocentric, where...
This article presents a case study of innovation in sustainability education higher education. It does so by explaining the to-date progress multi-year reaccreditation process begun 2016 for College Charleston (CofC), public liberal arts and sciences university Charleston, South Carolina approximately 10,000 undergraduates 1300 graduate students. The question addressed is how can institute strategically embed literacy that focused on social/environmental engagement, way contributes to...
Deep Green Resistance (or DGR) is a US-based radical environmental group that calls for ‘decisive ecological warfare’ (DEW) motivated by naturalistic forms of nature spirituality and biocentric moral sentiments. Exceptionally militant, its advocates champion both aboveground underground resistance to industrial capitalism, viewing sabotage violence as necessary tactic, grounding views in apocalyptic millennial themes. To understand this movement, one must apprehend the ways ecological,...
Abstract Universities have an unrivalled potential to educate students on climate change issues and actively engage them in affairs, both as citizens influencers of future professions. Despite this the many advantages student engagement change, less emphasis has been given understanding students´ perceptions attitudes towards a way that may guide changes curriculum teaching practices. Based need address existing literature gap, paper assesses university students’ at international level. This...
This article argues that the religious thought and rituals of Reverend Billy Talen are a form dark green animist religion function as response to perceived human destruction biosphere. An overview environment-centered religions mobilized by concerns over planetary metrics is presented, followed case-study analysis Church Stop Shopping. It argued espoused an example how contemporary for environmental social health influencing production. The activism his church, aimed at liberating life from...
This paper approaches thinking animals via the animal humanities, focusing on conflicting meanings ascribed to domesticated cattle: are they destroyers of environment, or saviors planet? By investigating narrative tropes, especially those grounded within at times competing and overlapping worldviews religious environmentalism, biodynamic agriculture, sustainable this explores iterative interaction between how cows conceived, thus managed, in relation human-nature interactions. Management...