Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Redekop, Benjamin W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136938177
• Artikelnr.: 42983803

Autorenporträt

Benjamin W. Redekop is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at Christopher Newport University. His publications include Enlightenment and Community (McGill-Queens University Press, 2000), Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), and articles in Leadership Quarterly, Management Decision, The Encylopedia of Sustainability, Building Leadership Bridges, and Journal of Practical Consulting.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Connecting Leadership and Sustainability Benjamin Redekop 1.
An Ecological Perspective on Leadership Theory, Research, and Practice
Richard M. Wielkiewicz and Stephen P. Stelzner 2. Eco-Leadership: Towards
the Development of a New Paradigm Simon Western 3. Challenges and
Strategies of Leading for Sustainability Benjamin Redekop 4. Leadership and
the Dynamics of Collaboration: Averting the Tragedy of the Commons Rob
Williams 5. Leadership for Sustainability in Business: It's All About the
Stories We Tell Martin Melaver 6. Green Heroes Re-examined: An Evaluation
of Environmental Role Models Beth Birmingham and Stan Lequire 7.
Communicating Leadership for Environmental Sustainability: The Rhetorical
Strategies of Rachel Carson and Al Gore Denise Stodola 8. Artists as
Transformative Leaders for Sustainability Jill Jacoby & Xia Ji 9. The
Agrarian Mind and Good Leadership: Harvesting Insights from the Literary
Field of Wendell Berry Paul Kaak 10. Leadership from Below: Farmers and
Sustainable Agriculture in Ethiopia. Ezekiel Gebissa 11. The League of
Nations and the Problems of Health and the Environment: Leadership for the
Common Good in Historical Perspective Michael Callahan 12. Protest, Power,
and "Political Somersaults:" Leadership Lessons from the German Green Party
Heather McDougall 13. Religion, Leadership, and the Natural Environment:
The Case of American Evangelicals Calvin Redekop 14. The Turn toward
Spirituality and Environmental Leadership Corné Bekker 15. Deep Systems
Leadership: A Model for the 21st Century Rian Satterwhite. Conclusion:
Towards a New General Theory of Leadership