This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 Sections:1. Policy-making,  visioning, structures, management and strategies 2. Teaching, learning and competencies 3. Research and transformation 4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts5. Students and stakeholders´  initiatives and involvement The encyclopedia  will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers,  professors, researchers)

technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.