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Another ESI in this category is Carpooling Campaign. Carpooling, also known as
car-sharing, can reduce the number of cars and vehicles on the road, which in return
will reduce carbon emission and traffic congestion. The best part about carpooling
is that it helps students and staff to save more money.
5.2.6 Education and Research (ED)
The purpose of ED category in UI GreenMetric is to give information on the
environmental and sustainability education implemented in university teaching and
learning (Universitas Indonesia 2018). This information is defined by the number of
courses or subjects offered in university’s education programme related to environmental sustainability and by the sustainability research activities. There are seven (7)
indicators in ED category that basically focus on sustainability effort in education
and research, which are number of courses, research funding, publications, events,
student organisations, website and report (Universitas Indonesia 2018).
Environmental education (EE) is a very important process in providing students
with environmental knowledge. As a result, students are able to develop a better
understanding of environmental issues, generate the skills to solve the issues and
take effective actions to keep a healthy environment. Universities are responsible
to help students in understanding the effects of their decisions and actions toward
environment. EE will become a lifelong learning process at creating responsible
individuals that are aware and concern about environmental challenges in the future.
Universities can improve EE by developing programme guidelines and policy as well
as producing an innovative and flexible approaches not only for students, but also
for university’s staff.
6 Conclusion
To improve environmental sustainability performance and become a Green Campus,
universities in Malaysia have implemented various ESIs through the years. By
applying the environmental sustainability categories from UI GreenMetric, the ESI
has been observed to give a positive impact towards university’s environmental
sustainability management and to improve university’s ranking. Therefore, UI
GreenMetric can be used as a guideline in constructing the best initiatives and
operational practices. Although there was a study (Ragazzi and Ghidini 2017)
stating that the UI GreenMetric needs to be improved and strengthen due to the
imperfection of its method, there are other measurement methods or tools for
examples GREENSHIP, Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System
(STARS) and Green Report Card as well as environmental criteria that can be
referred to and implemented by the universities.
Thus, it can be concluded that the key factors that should be included in the
ESI plan are awareness and environmental knowledge, green space and land use
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Another ESI in this category is Carpooling Campaign. Carpooling, also known as
car-sharing, can reduce the number of cars and vehicles on the road, which in return
will reduce carbon emission and traffic congestion. The best part about carpooling
is that it helps students and staff to save more money.
5.2.6 Education and Research (ED)
The purpose of ED category in UI GreenMetric is to give information on the
environmental and sustainability education implemented in university teaching and
learning (Universitas Indonesia 2018). This information is defined by the number of
courses or subjects offered in university’s education programme related to environmental sustainability and by the sustainability research activities. There are seven (7)
indicators in ED category that basically focus on sustainability effort in education
and research, which are number of courses, research funding, publications, events,
student organisations, website and report (Universitas Indonesia 2018).
Environmental education (EE) is a very important process in providing students
with environmental knowledge. As a result, students are able to develop a better
understanding of environmental issues, generate the skills to solve the issues and
take effective actions to keep a healthy environment. Universities are responsible
to help students in understanding the effects of their decisions and actions toward
environment. EE will become a lifelong learning process at creating responsible
individuals that are aware and concern about environmental challenges in the future.
Universities can improve EE by developing programme guidelines and policy as well
as producing an innovative and flexible approaches not only for students, but also
for university’s staff.
6 Conclusion
To improve environmental sustainability performance and become a Green Campus,
universities in Malaysia have implemented various ESIs through the years. By
applying the environmental sustainability categories from UI GreenMetric, the ESI
has been observed to give a positive impact towards university’s environmental
sustainability management and to improve university’s ranking. Therefore, UI
GreenMetric can be used as a guideline in constructing the best initiatives and
operational practices. Although there was a study (Ragazzi and Ghidini 2017)
stating that the UI GreenMetric needs to be improved and strengthen due to the
imperfection of its method, there are other measurement methods or tools for
examples GREENSHIP, Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System
(STARS) and Green Report Card as well as environmental criteria that can be
referred to and implemented by the universities.
Thus, it can be concluded that the key factors that should be included in the
ESI plan are awareness and environmental knowledge, green space and land use