ABSTRACT
Achieving environmental sustainability is quickly becoming one of the great leadership challenges of our time. This book is for all those who want to better understand this challenge and are looking for insights, research fi ndings, and stories that will help them to address it. It is becoming painfully clear that there are no “easy” solutions to the environmental problems that we face, and consequently it is going to take deep and sustained refl ection, from all viewpoints-technical, biological, social, economic, cultural, historical, and spiritual, among others-if progress is going to be made. This book makes a contribution to the emerging conversation about leadership and sustainability and to the larger discussion about how we are going to ensure our continued fl ourishing on this planet, not to mention the survival of all the other plant and animal species that we are quickly forcing out of existence.
