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Innovation in Environmental Leadership provides fresh insights and critical perspectives on the vibrant and growing field of environmental leadership. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to leadership theory and environmental leadership and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sustainability, environmental ethics, natural resource management, environmental studies, business management, public policy, and environmental management.
List of contents
Introduction
Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, and Rian Satterwhite
1. The Seven Unsustainabilities of Mainstream Leadership
Jem Bendell, Richard Little, and Neil Sutherland
2. A Case for Universal Contexts: Intersections of the Biosphere, Systems, and Justice Using a Critical Constructionist Lens
Rian Satterwhite
3. The Eco-Leadership Paradox
Simon Western
4. Sustainable Leadership: Toward Restoring the Human and Natural World.
Tina Evans
5. Eco-leadership, Complexity Science, and 21st Century Organizations: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.
D. Adam Cletzer and Eric K. Kaufman
6. Towards an Understanding of the Relationship Between the Study of Leadership and the Natural World
Robert McManus
7. The Unseen Revolution: Leadership for Sustainability in the Tropical Biosphere
Paul Kosempel, Linda G. Olson, and Filiberto Penados
8. Heroes No More: Businesses Practice Collaborative Leadership to Confront Climate Change
Deborah Rigling Gallagher
9. Climate Change Leadership: From Tragic to Comic Discourse
Benjamin Redekop and Morgan Thomas
10. Followers’ Self-Perception of their Role in Addressing Climate Change: A Cultural Comparison
David J. Brown and Robert M. McManus
11. Ending the Drought: Nurturing Environmental Leadership in Ethiopia
Fentahun Mengistu, Girma Shimellis, and Vachel Miller
12. We Don’t Conquer Mountains, We Understand Them: Embedding Indigenous Education in Australian Outdoor Education
Shawn Andrews
13. Critical Internal Shifts for Sustainable Leadership
Kathleen E. Allen
14. From Peril to Possibility: Restorative Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Seana Lowe Steffen
Conclusion
Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, and Rian Satterwhite
About the author
Benjamin W. Redekop is Professor of Leadership Studies at Christopher Newport University, USA.
Deborah Rigling Gallagher is Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at Duke University, USA.
Rian Satterwhite is Director of Service Learning and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.
