Higher Education and Green Transitions

Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Agder, Norway, Debananda Misra, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and Yuzhuo Cai, Professor, Department of Education Policy and Leadership and Co-Director of the Global Research Institute for Finnish, European, and Global South Education (GRIFE), The Education University of Hong Kong, HKSAR China

• Contents1 Higher education and green transitions: what, how and forwhom? 1Debananda Misra, Rómulo Pinheiro and Yuzhuo Cai2 Exploring recycling behaviours and influencing factors amonguniversity residential hall students in Hong Kong 23Michelle Cheng and Zhai Keyu3 University training in degrowth for future teachers for a justand planet-friendly ecological transition: a case study fromSpain 48Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez, Antía Puentes Corral andEva Palomo-Cermeño4 Transforming higher education teaching and learning forsustainability competencies: exploring a holistic frameworkfor Hong Kong public universities 64Weiyan Xiong5 Higher education and inclusive green growth in low- andmiddle-income countries: a perspective from Egypt’s tertiaryagricultural education system 84Lena Krautscheid and Assem Abu Hatab6 Role of universities in developing the capabilities oftechnological innovation systems for electric vehicles 115Parvathi A R, Shuborno Chakroborty and Debananda Misra7 Higher education and regional sustainability transformationsin Africa: university engagement in Mozambique, Cape Verdeand Angola 142Hugo Pinto and Carla Nogueira8 An empirical study on the environmental functions of highereducation 168Fengliang Li, Zhilin Wang and Manqing Liu9 Strategising social symbolic work in higher education:institutional work and cultural change 193Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti, Rómulo Pinheiro and Jouni Kekäle10 Sustainability-oriented universities: value propositions, policylevers and good practices 222Ben Jongbloed11 The potential of university associations to promotesustainability: a South American case 246Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti and Rómulo Pinheiro12 Universities as catalysts for green transitions: insights andpathways forward 268Yuzhuo Cai, Debananda Misra and Rómulo Pinheiro

‘Timely, inspiring, and deeply informed, this book captures how universities across nine countries are reshaping teaching and learning to advance the green transition. It is both analytically rigorous and quietly optimistic – pointing to a new generation of expertise in the making.’