A RESEARCH ON GREEN MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyze the first five universities in the GreenMetric ranking in 2019 and 2020 and the first five universities from Turkey in the context of green management studies and compare the two groups with each other. In the first stage of the research, the web pages and activity reports of the universities that formed the sample were examined. In the second stage, according to the GreenMetric criteria, the changes in the scores of the universities in settlement and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation, education and research applications in 2019 and 2020 were monitored, and comparisons between universities were made according to the scores. Although the efforts of the universities in the top five in the 2019-2020 GreenMetric ranking and the first five universities from Turkey that entered the GreenMetric are similar to each other, it has been observed that the universities in the top of the list have relatively higher integration with their internal and external stakeholders compared to Turkish universities. In terms of GreenMetric subdimensions, Turkish universities score relatively better than some of the universities that are at the top of the list in the fields of water, transportation and education-research, while with very large score differences compared to the top five universities in settlement and infrastructure, energy and climate change and waste items.