BUILDING A GREEN IMAGE: BEST SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN UNIVERSITIES

摘要

Universities can play a pivotal role in upholding sustainability practices through diverse drivers and catalysts. A suite of eco-friendly management strategies and practices for energy, water, wastes, natural environment including biodiversity, built environment and education can shrink institutional ecological footprint and usher in a paradigm shift in the mindset.By gauging sustainability drives one can evaluate university's commitment towards sustainability, and university can maneuver organizational changes.The article presents a spectrum of green practices as benchmark for measuring potential, performance and progress of universities towards sustainable development goals.