The links between education and sustainable development are deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly, for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to sustainability.

Introduction * Sustainability and Higher Education * Sustainability and Lifelong Learning * An Analysis of the Development of Sustainability Education Internationally: Evolution, Interpretation and Transformative Potential * Citizenship and Community from Local to Global Citizenship Approach * Learning by Doing: Environmental Performance Improvement in UK Higher Education * Eco-design * Sustainability Development and Sustainable Development Education: An Eco-feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Importance of Gender * Sustainability and Education in the Built Environment * Sustainable Transport and Logistics: Vision or Reality? * Accounting Education for Sustainability * Towards a New Economics? Social Policy and Sustainable Development * Sustainable Development, Sociology and UK Higher Education * Politics and Sustainable Development * Geography * Sustainable and Philosophy * Conclusion: The Future - Is Sustainability Sustainable? * Index