(Ebook) Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Business Ethics) by Benjamin W. Redekop ISBN 041580650X

(Ebook) Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Business Ethics) by Benjamin W. Redekop ISBN 041580650X

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 Sustainability  BENJAMIN W. REDEKOP1 An Ecological Perspective on Leadership Theory, Research, and Practice RICHARD M. WIELKIEWICZ AND STEPHEN P. STELZNER2 Eco-Leadership: Towards the Development of a New Paradigm  SIMON WESTERN3 Challenges and Strategies of Leading for Sustainability  BENJAMIN W. REDEKOP4 Leadership and the Dynamics of Collaboration: Averting the Tragedy of the Commons  ROBERT L. WILLIAMS5 Leadership for Sustainability in Business: It's all about the Stories We Tell  MARTIN MELAVER6 Green Heroes Reexamined: An Evaluation of Environmental Role Models  BETH BIRMINGHAM AND STAN LEQUIRE7 Communicating Leadership for Environmental Sustainability: The Rhetorical Strategies of Rachel Carson and Al Gore  DENISE STODOLA8 Artists as Transformative Leaders for Sustainability  JILL B. JACOBY AND XIA JI9 The Agrarian Mind and Good Leadership: Harvesting Insights from the Literary Field of Wendell Berry  PAUL KAAK10 Leadership from Below: Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in Ethiopia  EZEKIEL 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 Lessons from the German Green Party  HEATHER R. MCDOUGALL13 Religion, Leadership, and the Natural Environment: The Case of American Evangelicals  CALVIN W. REDEKOP14 The Turn to Spirituality and Environmental Leadership  CORN? J. BEKKER15 Deep Systems Leadership: A Model for the 21st Century  RIAN SATTERWHITEConclusion: Towards a New General Theory of Leadership  BENJAMIN W. REDEKOPContributorsIndex