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UBC sustainability : assessing student perceptions and knowledge levels across faculties

University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

There is much academic debate surrounding the myriad definitions of sustainability, and this debate is compounded by sometime competing perspectives inherent in a diversity of academic fields of inquiry. We used a two-part questionnaire to gauge whether student faculties predicted student perceptions of sustainability, as well as exploring participants’ objective knowledge levels on sustainability. Without proving causation, our results show significantly different definitions of sustainability across faculties of Arts, Science and Business at University of British Columbia, while also illustrating a disproportionate representation of environmentally aspected definitions compared to the economic and social aspect in popular perception. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

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University of British Columbia. PSYC 321; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0224021

Arts, Faculty of; Psychology, Department of

Unreviewed

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