ABSTRACT
This closing paper has, therefore, highlighted some examples of opportunities for change and innovation in the ESD arena. The ideas presented will no doubt be new to some readers and familiar to others. What they have in common is that they are not yet in common practice. They span areas such as curriculum review and enhancement, pioneering ESD in a range of disciplines, developing fresh institutional policies and cultures, using the informal curriculum and connecting sustainability and employability.
Throughout this volume, as in this final paper, the reader will have encountered a varied menu of approaches to the sustainability agenda. It is hoped that the book’s contents will encourage both a sharing of ideas and a strengthening of commitment. In the past, higher education has often been portrayed as (by omission) doing more to exacerbate than to ameliorate the growing threats to society’s sustainability. We have been part of the problem rather than the solution. This volume and its multitude of authors have illustrated that it doesn’t have to be like this. It doesn’t have to be ‘business as usual’. There is another way—indeed, a multiplicity of other ways.
