Students’ Perception of Campus
Sustainability in a Brazilian University
Claudio R. P. Vasconcelos, Paula Ferreira, Madalena Araújo,
Davidson Cordeiro, and Shammio M. Dias Silva
1 Introduction
The sustainability issues in HEIs have been attracting a progressively increasing
level of consideration from managers and scholars. Hundreds of applicational case
studies of sustainable practices in HEI and dozens of sustainable assessment tools
(SATs) have been created since the emergence of the environmental crisis reported
in Stockholm, 1972.
Until now, much relevant knowledge has been generated on the topic of the sustainable system and SATs for HEIs. However, HEI are complex institutions composed
of several interdependent subsystems, therefore sustainable improvement requires
a holistic and integrated system and assessment measures to ensure its compliance
with the established goals (Leal Filho et al. 2019a; Tim and Jutidamrongphan 2018).
Despite the vast literature produced concerning sustainability in higher education,
the need for the development of integrated and holistic systems to manage HEIs’
C. R. P. Vasconcelos (B) · D. Cordeiro · S. M. Dias Silva
Laboratory of Sustainability Engineering and Consumption, Federal University of Paraíba, P.O.
Box 5045, 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
e-mail: claudioruy@yahoo.com
D. Cordeiro
e-mail: davidsoncordeiro70@gmail.com
S. M. Dias Silva
e-mail: shammio.michel@gmail.com
C. R. P. Vasconcelos · P. Ferreira · M. Araújo
School of Engineering, Algoritmi Research Centre, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães,
Portugal
e-mail: paulaf@dps.uminho.pt
M. Araújo
e-mail: mmaraujo@dps.uminho.pt
© 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_19
285
Sustainability in a Brazilian University
Claudio R. P. Vasconcelos, Paula Ferreira, Madalena Araújo,
Davidson Cordeiro, and Shammio M. Dias Silva
1 Introduction
The sustainability issues in HEIs have been attracting a progressively increasing
level of consideration from managers and scholars. Hundreds of applicational case
studies of sustainable practices in HEI and dozens of sustainable assessment tools
(SATs) have been created since the emergence of the environmental crisis reported
in Stockholm, 1972.
Until now, much relevant knowledge has been generated on the topic of the sustainable system and SATs for HEIs. However, HEI are complex institutions composed
of several interdependent subsystems, therefore sustainable improvement requires
a holistic and integrated system and assessment measures to ensure its compliance
with the established goals (Leal Filho et al. 2019a; Tim and Jutidamrongphan 2018).
Despite the vast literature produced concerning sustainability in higher education,
the need for the development of integrated and holistic systems to manage HEIs’
C. R. P. Vasconcelos (B) · D. Cordeiro · S. M. Dias Silva
Laboratory of Sustainability Engineering and Consumption, Federal University of Paraíba, P.O.
Box 5045, 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
e-mail: claudioruy@yahoo.com
D. Cordeiro
e-mail: davidsoncordeiro70@gmail.com
S. M. Dias Silva
e-mail: shammio.michel@gmail.com
C. R. P. Vasconcelos · P. Ferreira · M. Araújo
School of Engineering, Algoritmi Research Centre, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães,
Portugal
e-mail: paulaf@dps.uminho.pt
M. Araújo
e-mail: mmaraujo@dps.uminho.pt
© 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_19
285