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Postal address:

Sustainability Team, Estates Division
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE

 

Visiting address:

Sustainability Team, Estates Division
3rd floor, 1 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6AN

 

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Education for sustainable development

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Objective

  • Research: Conduct world-leading research on sustainability issues that shapes public debate and policy, particularly through the work of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Department of Geography and Environment, the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance, and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.
  • Teaching and Learning: Ensure that LSE graduates have a full understanding of the environmental and social dimensions of key contemporary issues.  
  • Training and Guidance: Ensure that staff, students and visitors are able to access information on sustainable lifestyles to support their development as responsible global citizens

Initiatives

  • LSE academics conduct world-leading research in environmental and sustainability issues, including climate change, urban sustainability, environmental law, and more.  Read research case studies in our Annual Sustainability Reports and on departmental web pages.
  • The LSE100 module is taken by all LSE undergraduates, and provides critical insight into the key global issues of our age, including multiple sustainability issues. Graduate students can attend LSE400 lectures. 
  • In the 2013/14 academic year an evaluation carried out by the Estates Division found that LSE had 223 modules which feature some areas of environmental or social sustainability. This accounted for 20% of all modules. This evaluation will be repeated for the 2015/16 academic year. 
  • As part of staff and student environmental engagement scheme Green Impact, in 2013 the Mathematics Department incorporated environmental topics into assignments in their undergraduate curriculum. Other departments are working to implement similar schemes in their taught courses.
  • Staff and students can receive training on several areas of sustainability, including waste and how to reduce their carbon footprint.
  • There is an opportunity for staff and students to receive IEMA approved environmental auditing training within the Green Impact programme.
  • The LSE public lectures programme features world-renowned speakers on environmental and social issues each year.  For forthcoming events, and to download podcasts of previous public lectures, click here.  

Case Studies

1 Maths Department (2013)

The Maths department were awarded funding from the Sustainable Projects Fund to incorporate environmental issues into core undergraduates Maths and Statistics modules. The Maths Department aimed to raise student awareness of general environmental issues and show how environmental topics can overlap with nearly all disciplines. Over a year, they introduced sustainability into some of the undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics course work. In addition, the Maths Department also ran a competition on each course where the students were asked to identify potential applications of the mathematics and statistics they’d learnt to green or environmental situations or contexts. 

 

2 Government Department (2012 – 2014)

The Sustainability Team worked with the Government Department to  develop coursework  for undergraduate students based on a real sustainability challenge for LSE.  Environmental Policy   students   researched different approaches to engaging students on sustainability issues, and how their feedback could be used to shape LSE’s environmental strategy.    They then designed proposals to implement their proposed engagement programmes. . Presentations and policy analyses were given to the Sustainability Team, who integrated these suggestions into their working plans. 

 

3 Management Department (2013 – ongoing)

The Sustainability Team have worked with the Management Department on an undergraduate Project Management module. This has included lectures and classroom discussions on how to incorporate sustainability issues into project management and organisations.  Students also completed an assignment to deliver a recycling system for a large organisation, responding to a brief based on the real-life case study of LSE’s own recycling system. Students produced a report including an analysis of the current situation and further recommendations.  

 

4 MSc Dissertation: Tackling Meat Consumption (2016)

Korinna Jorling, a student of MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation, received funding from the Sustainable Projects Fund to carry out research for her dissertation on ‘Tackling meat consumption without constraining choice.’ The project aimed to assess the effect of ‘nudging’ on the consumption patterns of consumers at LSE catering outlets. Meat options were not removed or reduced from the menu, but the order in which the options were presented was altered so that vegetarian options were listed first. As well as measuring the overall impact this had on meat consumption, a survey was carried out to assess co-variables such as gender, nationality, age and diet preferences. The findings of the study will be shared with LSE Catering, so implementing these changes long-term can be considered.

 

 

 

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