@inbook{7a92af11b72e498bb5c4fc793a129bb6,
title = "E-collaborating for environmentally sustainable health curricula",
abstract = "Purpose: This chapter aims to demonstrate how medical educators can use e-collaborative tools to collaborating internationally and cross-institutionally towards designing environmental sustainability and health (ESH) education. The main focus of the chapter is on sustainable medical curricula. Methodology: The chapter uses a case-study approach to bridge these broader e-collaborative principles with the specifics of implementation driven and supported by e-collaboration. Findings: The case study describes the evolution of the Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE)-network into a network collaborative. Finally, the chapter discusses e-collaboration for education development through an illustrative case. The case concerns an UK-Greek University e-collaboration aimed at combating obesity and promoting climate literacy. Research implications: E-collaboration is central at all levels of the ESH curriculum design process from forming a network collaborative around the curriculum process, alignment of assessment and learning activities with objectives, discussing and agreeing on a vision to the actual implementation plan. Practical implications: E-collaboration aids the curriculum design process such that people feel that their participation and interests are valued, as well as providing resources and input to resource stressed academics and institutions. E-collaboration is not an end in itself, but a means of enabling a global network collaborative to address an issue that suits this type of collaboration towards sustainable healthcare education. Originality: This chapter is inventive in showing how the promotion of climate literacy can be a component of a sustainable medical curriculum and how this process is facilitated with e-collaborative tools. The chapter demonstrates how health education should educate climate literate health professionals who are able to address and reduce public health impacts of climate change.",
keywords = "Case study, Climate literacy, Environmental sustainability, Medical curriculum, Network collaboration",
author = "Peter Musaeus and Caroline Wellbery and Sarah Walpole and Rother, {Hanna Andrea} and Aditya Vyas and Kathleen Leedham-Green",
note = "Funding Information: First, for creating Fig. 1, our heartfelt thanks to Matthew D. Mueller, DO/ MPH, Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Second, funding was instrumental in physically bringing together members of the SHE Network on two occasions. The first funding, a Collaborative Teaching Grant from the UK Higher Education Academy allowed a national consultation process involving 64 participants to be held around the three Priority Learning Outcomes on sustainability. The second, funding for the collaboration between King{\textquoteright}s College London, UK (KCL) was in part from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTH). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-70199-8_9",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319701981",
series = "Climate Change Management",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "151--167",
editor = "{M. Azeiteiro}, Ulisses and {Leal Filho}, {Walter } and Aires, {Lu{\'i}sa }",
booktitle = "Climate Literacy and Innovations in Climate Change Education",
address = "Netherlands",
edition = "1",
}
