Agarwal Sunita Mittal
Warden Construction and Finance Co. Ltd., Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001, India.
Heliyon. 2023 Feb 27;9(3):e13909. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13909. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Go-Brown are brown agendas that focus on protecting the environment and health of the current students yielding immediate results. Go-Green are green agendas that aim to protect the environment and health of the future students yielding long-lasting results. Smart initiatives are implemented on the university infrastructure to preserve our ecosystem. It is important to create sustainability awareness in the students and implement these initiatives in universities' infrastructure. There are limited studies on these initiatives' implementation, which creates a research gap. The research question is whether the University of Delhi (DU) is implementing these initiatives for creating sustainability awareness among students to put them on a sustainable path. The research objectives are to assess whether the DU colleges are implementing these initiatives; highlight new definitions of sustainability agendas into Go-Brown, Go-Green, and Smart categories pertinent to the education system and study them step-wise; study sustainable environment indicators: water, waste, air, land and energy; and conceptualize the "Educational Institutional Environmental Sustainability Stars" Theory and Rating System. This study selected Go-Brown, Go-Green and Smart parameters from water, waste, air, land and energy and conducted an assessment survey in 30 colleges on their sustainability compliance and evaluated them through a statistical analysis. It recommends implementation of these initiatives by the Government of India to develop futuristic smart universities, inculcate the "Educational Institutions Environmental Sustainability Stars" Theory and Rating System in the Indian educational system and to frame regulatory sustainability laws. Limitations are whether the outcome of this study conducted on 15 parameters in 30 DU colleges can be applied to all India's educational institutions; and whether the implemented initiatives have influenced the students to take them forward. The smart university modelling features inclusive of smart environment, smart infrastructure and smart education solutions with their interdependent relationship and various stakeholders can lead to future research.
“棕色行动”是指关注保护环境和当前学生健康并能立即产生成效的棕色议程。“绿色行动”是旨在保护环境和未来学生健康并能产生持久成效的绿色议程。在大学基础设施方面实施了明智的举措以保护我们的生态系统。在学生中培养可持续发展意识并在大学基础设施中实施这些举措很重要。关于这些举措实施情况的研究有限，这造成了研究空白。研究问题是德里大学（DU）是否正在实施这些举措以在学生中培养可持续发展意识，使其走上可持续发展道路。研究目标包括评估德里大学各学院是否正在实施这些举措；突出与教育系统相关的“棕色行动”“绿色行动”和“明智行动”等可持续发展议程的新定义并逐步进行研究；研究可持续环境指标：水、废物、空气、土地和能源；以及构建“教育机构环境可持续发展之星”理论和评级体系。本研究从水、废物、空气、土地和能源中选取了“棕色行动”“绿色行动”和“明智行动”参数，并在30所学院就其可持续发展合规情况进行了评估调查，并通过统计分析对其进行了评估。它建议印度政府实施这些举措以发展未来的智能大学，在印度教育系统中灌输“教育机构环境可持续发展之星”理论和评级体系，并制定监管可持续发展的法律。局限性在于，在德里大学30所学院基于15个参数进行的这项研究结果是否能应用于全印度的教育机构；以及已实施的举措是否影响学生将其继续推进。智能大学建模特点包括智能环境、智能基础设施和智能教育解决方案及其相互依存关系，以及各种利益相关者，这可能会引发未来的研究。
