Ambiente y sustentabilidad en las instituciones de educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe

This paper describes the historical process and current sta-tus of environmental mainstreaming in higher education institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is intendede to describe from a historical perspective the three-staged process that has evolved for over more than six decades. During this period, environmental higher education has initially focused on natural resources; later, on environment and finally, on sustainable development. Throughout this process, a very important role has been played by the promotional programmes of several inter-national agencies, as well as the national environmental education policies of some countries in the region. Ne-vertheless, the credit for the accomplishments achieved during the long process of greening higher education has to be primarily awarded to the universities themselves.In order to describe the current situation of higher edu-cation in Latin America and the Caribbean, there will be a presentation of some of the experiences that the authors had known when writing this paper, concerning the areas of training, research, outreach and environmental mana-gement of universities at regional level. This overview will shed light over the great diversity of practices and approa-ches regarding sustainability that Latin America higher education institutions have developed. However, the available knowledge about this complex process remains fragmented and superficial. To overcome these limitations, it is essential that the community devo-ted to the study of environmental education in universities were prone to agree on developing a common research programme, a collective work that is just beginning.

• Autores: Sáenz, Orlando; Benayas, Javier
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional UDCA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.udca.edu.co:11158/3279
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.udca.edu.co/index.php/ambiens/article/view/1034
• Palabra clave: Formación ambiental a nivel superior; Historia de la educación ambiental; Incorporación de la dimensión ambiental en la educación superior; Educación ambiental; Universidad; Gestión ambiental; Medio ambiente; Recursos naturales
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Derechos Reservados - Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales