Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
9th Global Conference on Environmental Studies (CENVISU-2021), Antalya, Türkiye, 14 - 16 Ekim 2021
Today,
universities all over the world want to make a name for themselves with the
steps and practices they have taken on sustainability issues by increasing
environmental awareness. To achieve this goal, it is inevitable that they focus
on a "green campus and sustainable campus". As the interest in
sustainable campuses increased, universities started to be evaluated based on
their environmental and sustainable activities. In evaluations, some
international sustainability indexes such as University League, Sustainability Tracking and Assessment
Rating System and GreenMetric, which increase awareness of
sustainability, are used and universities are ranked. In this study,
international environmental sustainability indexes were examined and
comparisons were made between them. The Green Metric ranking system, which is
known to be the most preferred among the sustainability evaluation indexes, and
in which demanding international universities participate through an online
survey, and a total of 6 main categories and 53 indicators with different
importance percentages of this ranking system were examined and evaluations
were made about their importance percentages.
When
the Green Metric ranking results for 2020 are examined, it is seen that there
has been an increase in the number of participating countries and 45
universities from Turkey are included in this ranking. In our study, where we
consider the Turkish universities in the top 500 in the 2020 Green Metric
ranking as material; To determine the category with the highest impact on the
success of these universities, universities with different rankings despite
having the same overall score were compared. Additionally, some suggestions
were made by discussing what needs to be done for Turkish universities to rise
to higher ranks.