Campus Sustainability Appraisal in Nigeria: Setting up Sustainable Attributes for Higher Educational Institutions

Adenle, Yusuf A. and Sun, Yi and Chau, Chi-Kwan and Chan, Edwin (2020) Campus Sustainability Appraisal in Nigeria: Setting up Sustainable Attributes for Higher Educational Institutions. SHAPING URBAN CHANGE – Livable City Regions for the 21st Century. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2020, 25th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 123-131. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Sustainable campus development has gained the attention of several policymakers and urban planners within the past decades with different campuses across the world claiming to be sustainable or have adopted initiatives of becoming sustainable. The different tools for assessing sustainability in higher education cannot be utilised in all institutions across the globe due to factors such as regional variation. This paper established and formalised a systematic approach to comprehensively review sustainability indicators identified in 13 campus sustainability assessment tools. Thereafter, Twitter social media and an online big data analysis tool were utilised in selecting environmental-based sustainability indicators for higher educational institutions in Nigeria. The rise in the use of social media amongst tertiary institution stakeholders ensures that a better understanding of environmental challenges can be derived from the perspectives of these stakeholders. The findings from the comprehensive review of the selected 13 tools reveal that there are variations in the sets of their sustainability indicators and selection process. None of the tools have compatible indicators for campus sustainability appraisal and none of the tools utilised social media and big data technology to arrive at the adopted set of indicators for their appraisal framework, threshold, and rating. We identified energy, environment, transport, infrastructure, waste, and water as the major categories for sustainability indicators in Nigeria. The current research gap identified from literature strongly justifies the purpose of this study that setup sustainability indicators that are peculiar to tertiary institutions in Nigeria that will bring about an appraisal framework and also give room for campuses to compare their sustainability performance and interchange of standard practices.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Elastic stack, Campus sustainability, Social media data, Nigeria, Sustainability indicators
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	02 Feb 2021 09:05
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2021 09:05
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/642

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