ABSTRACT
Climate change is one of the most significant and challenging problems we face today, and many organisations have recognised their responsibility in reducing emissions and environmental degradation and regenerating biodiversity. However, conventional leadership has failed to respond adequately to the magnitude of the threat, and a profound change in corporate leadership is required to substantively cut emissions and change climate policy to minimise further destructive environmental impact. This book sets out the qualities and approaches needed by leaders to successfully develop and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.
Bringing together the foremost experts in climate change leadership from business, leadership, psychology and coaching backgrounds, this book addresses the failures of current leadership practice and proposes a variety of models of how climate change leadership capabilities can be effectively developed in organisations. It is structured around four concepts: foundations, which includes models of environmental, ecological and evolutionary leadership; transitions, which looks at transformational and ethical models that are being repurposed for the age of sustainability; progressions, which explores innovative models that are being developed for the current age including systems, adaptation and maturity-based models of leadership; and actions, which includes models of sustainable goal setting and climate leadership coaching and development.
The book is written for corporate leaders, researchers and educators and will be an invaluable addition to the leadership curriculum and executive development programmes to help the next generation of leaders respond to global challenges.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|157 pages
Foundations
chapter 4|27 pages
An Evolutionary Perspective on Corporate Sustainability Transitions
chapter 5|26 pages
Guidance to Green Action
chapter 8|21 pages
Environmental Leadership is Contemporary Leadership
part II|64 pages
Transitions
chapter 10|22 pages
Responsible Leadership in the Governance of Managed Retreat
part III|82 pages
Progressions
chapter 13|17 pages
A Systems Perspective on Organisational Leadership for Climate Change
part IV|92 pages
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