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If you can not measure it You can not manage it! A Systemic approcah for measuring environmental sustainability in Higher Education Institutions Maryam Faghihimani Sustainability Adviser University of Oslo Sustainability Assessment in the 21 st Century - tools, trends and applications 26-28 Nov 2012
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Green UiO presentation at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) conference in Copenhagen November 2012.
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If you can not measure it You can not manage it!
A Systemic approcah for measuring environmental sustainability in Higher Education Institutions
Maryam Faghihimani Sustainability Adviser
University of Oslo
Sustainability Assessment in the 21st Century - tools, trends and applications 26-28 Nov 2012
Main Questions:
what is a Sustainable University?
How to measure it?
How Sustainable is UiO in compare with others?
How sustainable are other universities?
What can UiO learn from other universities?
How to implement sustainability in practice?
Phase 1: Diagnosis
•Defining sustainability
•Designing model of sustainable university
•Operationalizing the theoretical framework
•Developing table of indicators
• Context analysing universities’ performance
•Comparing their sustainability performance
Phase 2: Implementation
• Recommending a set of Best Green Practice
• Observing the process of implementation
• Re-evaluating the performance after one year
• •Analysing the progress and its outcomes
• Including the finding in the action plan
Dimentions of Educational Institutions
Governance
and
Administration
Curriculum &
Study
opportunity
Research
Operation
Other related activities
Staff position /
Sustainability office
Undergraduate study
in Environmental
Sustainability
Research Centre /
Institute
Energy
Conferences
Policies /
Principles/ Strategy
Postgraduate study in
Environmental
Sustainability
Internal Grant
Opportunity
Carbon emission
Students group
Institutional
declaration/
Resolutions
Doctoral studies in
Environmental
Sustainability
External Funding Waste Recycling
Events (except conferences)
Strategic approach/
Action plan
Environmental
Sustainability
Education
Research
Collaboration with
Industry &
Corporate
Building
Community Projects
Internal Awards Multidisciplinary
Sustainability
Education
Journal
Purchasing
University- Community Partnership
Annual
Sustainability
Reports
Service Learning
Communication
within Research
Centres
Water
Website of Sustainability
centre/activities
Students levy Student Research Other research
Activities
Food & Dining
Media/ News from Sustainability of
University
Audits Climate Change Climate Change
Paper
External Awards and Recognition
Housing Campus tour & Flyers
Sustainability
Management System
Raising Awareness/ Culture Change
Implementing Innovation
& Technology
Visibility of Sustainability of
University on the website
Conservation
Transportation
Fair trade
Chemical Material Concern
Lead/ Pesticide/ Detergent
Green Lab
T
Sample Universities
• Harvard University • Cambridge University • Yale University • UCL (University College London) • Imperial College London • Oxford University • Chicago University • Princeton University • MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) • CALTECH (California Institute of
Technology)
• Australian National University (THE Ranking: 17)
• University of Tokyo (THE 22) • Bristol University (THE 34) • University of Copenhagen (THE
Ranking: 51) • British Colombia University (THE 40 ) • Gothenburg University (THE 185) • Bradford University (N/A) • University of Bergen (UiB) (THE
Ranking: 144) • Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU) (N/A) • Norwegian University of Life Science
(UMB) (N/A) UiO THE Ranking 101 in 2009
Universities’ performance according to the 50 Indicators of Environmental Sustainability
48 48 48 47 47 47 46 46 46 45 45
43 43 42 41
37
32 30
26
20 18
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
UiO Performance to ES in 2010-2012
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
UiO Commitment to ES Status 2010 Predicted status for UiOCommitment to ES based on short
term planning for 2011
Current Status of UiO Commitmentto ES, June 2012
20
33 35
Progress in implementation of ES in different dimensions at UiO 2010-2012
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Sustainability inGovernance/8
Sustainability inCurriculum/8
Sustainability inResearch/7
Sustainability inOperation/16
Sustainability in relatedactivities/11
2010 Status
Suggested plan for 2011
Curent status June 2012
UiO ES status in 2012: Governance: 5 out of 8, Curriculum: 4 Out of 8, Research: 5 Out of 7, Operation: 12 out of 16, Other activities: 10 out of 11
Is that correct that : If you can not measure it , you can not manage it?
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