Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Business Ethics)

ISBN: 041580650X

Author: Benjamin W. Redekop

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As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come. It explores the connection between leadership and sustainability from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, history, psychology, business, literature, communication, and the arts. With short chapters edited for readability, the book is aimed at scholars, practitioners, students, and educated lay readers interested in cutting-edge research and thinking on this topic.Contents:Introduction: Connecting Leadership and SustainabilityBENJAMIN W. REDEKOP1 An Ecological Perspective on Leadership Theory, Research, and PracticeRICHARD M. WIELKIEWICZ AND STEPHEN P. STELZNER2 Eco-Leadership: Towards the Development of a New ParadigmSIMON WESTERN3 Challenges and Strategies of Leading for SustainabilityBENJAMIN W. REDEKOP4 Leadership and the Dynamics of Collaboration: Averting the Tragedy of the CommonsROBERT L. WILLIAMS5 Leadership for Sustainability in Business: It's all about the Stories We TellMARTIN MELAVER6 Green Heroes Reexamined: An Evaluation of Environmental Role ModelsBETH BIRMINGHAM AND STAN LEQUIRE7 Communicating Leadership for Environmental Sustainability: The RhetoricalStrategies of Rachel Carson and Al Gore DENISE STODOLA8 Artists as Transformative Leaders for SustainabilityJILL B. JACOBY AND XIA JI9 The Agrarian Mind and Good Leadership: Harvesting Insightsfrom the Literary Field of Wendell Berry PAUL KAAK10 Leadership from Below: Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in EthiopiaEZEKIEL GEBISSA11 The League of Nations and the Problems of Health and the Environment:Leadership for the Common Good in Historical Perspective MICHAEL D. CALLAHAN12 Protest, Power, and "Political Somersaults": Leadership Lessonsfrom the German Green Party HEATHER R. MCDOUGALL13 Religion, Leadership, and the Natural Environment: The Case of American EvangelicalsCALVIN W. REDEKOP14 The Turn to Spirituality and Environmental LeadershipCORNÉ J. BEKKER15 Deep Systems Leadership: A Model for the 21st CenturyRIAN SATTERWHITEConclusion: Towards a New General Theory of LeadershipBENJAMIN W. REDEKOPContributorsIndex