ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the intersection between environmental ethics and leadership using McManus and Perruci’s five components of leadership model. The chapter defines the terms leadership, ethical leadership and environmental ethics before it explores four major approaches to environmental ethics: anthropocentricism, sentientism, biocentrism and ecocentrism. The authors then examine three of the major concepts of environmental ethics including a limitation of freedoms, the ethical standing of the environment and the responsibility to future generations. The authors close by proposing that environmental ethics demands that the natural world be considered as a superlayer encompassing the leadership process.
