Higher Education for Sustainability

Chapter 1 - The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network: A knowledge collaboration for sustainability transformation in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 2 - Global academic rankings. A challenge or a chance to Portuguese Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 3 - UMinho's seven guiding principles for sustainability strategies - A critical assessment.- Chapter 4 - Sustainability at the University of Madeira: A cultural transformation.- Chapter 5 - Sustainability and student motivation: does the campus matter?.- Chapter 6 - Sustaining the well-being of University students: The role of expectations on the usefulness of education.- Chapter 7 - The contribution of Social Sciences and Arts to the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education.- Chapter 8 - Higher education for sustainability in Portugal: a glimpse about what has been studied and published.

Carolina Machado received her Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences (Organizational and Policies Management Area/Human Resources Management) from the University of Minho in 1999, master's degree in Management (Strategic Human Resource Management) from Technical University of Lisbon in 1994, and Degree in Business Administration from University of Minho in 1989. Teaching in the Human Resources Management subjects since 1989 at University of Minho, she is since 2004 Associated Professor (with Habilitation since May 2022), with experience and research interest areas in the field of Human Resource Management, International Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management in SMEs, Training and Development, Emotional Intelligence, Management Change, Knowledge Management, and Management/HRM in the Digital Age/Business Analytics. She is Head of the Human Resources Management Work Group at the School of Economics and Management at University of Minho, Coordinator of Advanced Training Courses at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA.UMinho), University of Minho, as well as Chief Editor of the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE), Guest Editor of journals, books Editor and book Series Editor, as well as Reviewer in different international prestigious journals. In addition, she has also published both as Editor/Co-editor and as Author/Co-author several books, chapters, and articles in journals and conferences.


J. Paulo Davim is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as Honorary Professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India, and Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto