Corporate Sustainability Benchmarking
in Academia: Green Campus, Living
Labs, Socioeconomic
and Socioenvironmental Initiatives
in Brazil
Mario Corrêa de Sá e Benevides,
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra,
Robert Samuel Birch, and André Borchardt Deggau
1 Introduction
This study explores a benchmarking scheme for the evaluation of the Brazilian higher
education community in its performance towards an environmentally sustainable
future. The scheme is tested using a sample group of higher education institutes
M. C. de S. Benevides
PowerSB Sustainability and Business, Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: mario.benevides@unisul.br
URL: https://www.unisul.br; https://www.powersb.com
Centro Internacional, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis, Brazil
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Management and Environmental Sciences, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL),
Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
URL: https://www.unisul.br; https://www.ceenrg.landecon.cam.ac.uk/
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra · A. B. Deggau
Research Centre on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (GREENS), University of Southern
Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: andre.deggau@gmail.com
URL: https://www.unisul.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Department of Land Economy, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource
Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
R. S. Birch (B)
School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
e-mail: r.s.birch@liverpool.ac.uk
URL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_10
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in Academia: Green Campus, Living
Labs, Socioeconomic
and Socioenvironmental Initiatives
in Brazil
Mario Corrêa de Sá e Benevides,
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra,
Robert Samuel Birch, and André Borchardt Deggau
1 Introduction
This study explores a benchmarking scheme for the evaluation of the Brazilian higher
education community in its performance towards an environmentally sustainable
future. The scheme is tested using a sample group of higher education institutes
M. C. de S. Benevides
PowerSB Sustainability and Business, Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: mario.benevides@unisul.br
URL: https://www.unisul.br; https://www.powersb.com
Centro Internacional, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis, Brazil
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Management and Environmental Sciences, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL),
Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
URL: https://www.unisul.br; https://www.ceenrg.landecon.cam.ac.uk/
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra · A. B. Deggau
Research Centre on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (GREENS), University of Southern
Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis, Brazil
e-mail: andre.deggau@gmail.com
URL: https://www.unisul.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Department of Land Economy, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource
Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
R. S. Birch (B)
School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
e-mail: r.s.birch@liverpool.ac.uk
URL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_10
141