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member of the interdisciplinary graduate programs in Environmental Applied Science and Management (EnSciMan) and served as the program director from 2009 to 2015 and again as interim
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for building capacity for innovation through collaboration, learning and leadership. Water Policy
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McLendon MK, Hearn JC, Mokher CG (2009) Partisans, professionals, and power: the role of
political factors in state higher education funding. J Higher Educ 80:686–713
Metcalfe AS (2010) Revisiting academic capitalism in Canada: no longer the exception. J Higher
Educ 81:489–514
Newell WH (1992) Academic disciplines and undergraduate interdisciplinary education: lessons
from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University, Ohio. Eur J Educ 27(3):211–221
Newell WH (2007) Decision making in interdisciplinary studies. In: Morçöl G (ed) Handbook of
decision making. CRC Press, pp 245–264
O’Byrne D, Dripps W, Nicholas KA (2015) Teaching and learning sustainability: an assessment
of the curriculum content and structure of sustainability degree programs in higher education.
Sustain Sci 10(1):43–59
Pearson S, Honeywood S, O’Toole M (2005) Not yet learning for sustainability: the challenge of
environmental education in a university. Int Res Geogr Environ Educ 14(3):173–186
Ralph M, Stubbs W (2014) Integrating environmental sustainability into universities. High Educ
67(1):71–90
Reid A, Petocz P (2006) University lecturers’ understanding of sustainability. High Educ
51(1):105–123
Ryerson University (2017) Ryerson sustainability yearbook 2016–2017, facilities management
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Can J High Educ 38(2):1–23
Soule ME, Press DL (1998) What is environmental studies? Bioscience 48(5):397–405
Vincent S, Focht W (2009) US higher education environmental program managers’ perspectives on
curriculum design and core competencies: implications for sustainability as a guiding framework.
Int J Sustain High Educ 10(2):164–183
Vincent S, Focht W (2011) Interdisciplinary environmental education: elements of field identity
and curriculum design. J Environ Stud Sci 1(1):14–35
Welch-Devine M, Hardy D, Brosius JP, Heynen N (2014) A pedagogical model for integrative
training in conservation and sustainability. Ecol Soc 19:2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06197190210
Wright TS (2002) Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education.
High Educ Policy 15(2):105–120
Youngblood D (2007) Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and bridging disciplines: a matter of
process. J Res Pract, 3, 3, Article M18 http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/104/101.
Last accessed 26 June 2014
Zone Learning “About zone learning” Ryerson University. http://zonelearning.ryerson.ca/about/.
Last accessed 22 Jan 2018
Michal Bardecki Professor Bardecki holds the position of Professor in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at Ryerson University. He is a graduate of the University of
Guelph (Canada) and received his doctorate from York University (Canada). He was a founding
member of the interdisciplinary graduate programs in Environmental Applied Science and Management (EnSciMan) and served as the program director from 2009 to 2015 and again as interim
director in 2017. He was the initiator and primary force in the development of the undergraduate Environment and Urban Sustainability degree program. Dr. Bardecki teaches two large under-
