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Book SynopsisInnovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of critical perspectives, including post-heroic approaches, systems thinking, and the emerging insights of Critical Leadership Studies (CLS).
By taking the natural environment seriously as a foundational context for leadership, Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers fresh insights and compelling visions of leadership pertinent to 21st century environmental and social challenges. Concepts and understandings of leadership emerged as part of an extractive industrial system; this work asks its readers to re-think what leadership looks like in an ecologically sustainable biological system.
This book provides fresh insights and criti
Table 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
