Abstract
The use of environmental and sustainable indicators of global organizations has greater advantages than those of national initiatives or those developed by researchers in said subject, due to the fact that they have a much broader scope for sustainability, have been applied in a systematic manner and therefore have greater comparability and reliability. The environmental indicators are constructed from the approaches to sustainable development in universities with regards to the social, economic, institutional and environmental dimensions in the organizations. This work involves the application of environmental and sustainable indicators for internationally recognized efficiency in university activities, which contribute towards organizing, summarizing and developing the processes for development planning and environmental management.
Highlights
The indicators are measurements, the purpose of which is to reduce a large quantity of data which at the same time represents a phenomenon larger than the quality or immediate value and the data become more meaningful by making it more manageable and accessible.The indicators measure the information in such a way that it becomes immediately visible and simplifies it for the complex phenomena, thereby facilitating communication
In support of a proposal presented by the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE) [International University of Ecuador], convened the national workshop “Building Indicators to Assess Sustainability in Universities]” which was held in November 2013 in UIDE
The objective of this workshop was to draft a proposal for interinstitutional agreement, on issues that would reveal the progress of sustainable development in universities over the previous ten years, in the framework of Agenda 21, and to create a set of sustainability indicators for Classification of indicators Research: Sustainability in scientific research
Summary
The indicators measure the information in such a way that it becomes immediately visible and simplifies it for the complex phenomena, thereby facilitating communication. The university institutions should act as a model for learning and practice for sustainable development, from two perspectives, from the point of view of behavior of the institution itself and the impact of the activities. L. Ruiz undertaken (teaching, research and management) and from the point of view of the impact of their activity on the rest of society in an environment where higher education, research and innovation are considered to be key factors for facing the challenges of globalization and of a society based on the knowledge which guarantees the well-being of the citizens and sustainable development [1]
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