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There are a number of books and articles on sustainable development in higher education, in particular:

Blewitt and Cullingford: The Sustainable Curriculum: the Challenge for Higher Education, 2004;
Corcoran and Wals: Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise and Practice, 2004;
Haigh: Greening the University Curriculum: Appraising an International Movement in Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2005;
Filho (ed): Sustainability at Universities - Opportunities, Challenges and Trends, 2009; and
Jones, Selby and Sterling: Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education, 2010
Temple: Sustainability: A Job for Managers in Perspectives (Vol. 14 No. 4, 2010)

S R Gough and W A Scott have published a number of books and articles on sustainable development and higher education.

The HEFCE has published various materials, including:

Sustainable Development in Higher Education: 2008 Update to Strategic Statement and Action Plan (HEFCE 2009/03);
HEFCE Corporate Social Responsibility Policy;
HEFCE Corporate Social Responsibility Report for 2010 – 11;
HEFCE Sustainable Development Resource Guide;
HEFCE Strategy on Reducing Carbon Emissions, 2010 and
Carbon Management Strategies and Plans: A Guide to Good Practice

In 2008 HEFCE and Salix Finance launched the Revolving Green Fund, to support universities in the reduction of carbon emissions. An evaluation of the fund shows that this has led to an overall reduction of some 2% each year. The second phase has been launched with £10m. available over 2 years for carbon reduction projects.

The Times Higher Education in a review, found that the sector had much still to do in this area, but a report published by the HEA and the NUS shows that sustainability concerns are significant is students' choices of university.

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