ABSTRACT
This chapter explores numerous unseen sustainability leadership efforts that are taking place amidst the tropical biosphere in Belize. Focusing research efforts in majority world countries has the benefit of both understanding leadership for sustainability efforts more thoroughly, but also better understanding these efforts from a critical, alternative lens. While research privileges minority world efforts, an unseen revolution is taking place at the local level in the majority world. In exploring the distinction between sustainability leadership and leadership for sustainability, Wilson and Kosempel reinforce the notion that leadership for sustainability must include economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Western suggests that eco-leadership relies on a spiritual approach, something akin to solidarity among members of an organization. The critical study of leadership yields an understanding that leadership can become an ideology of its own and exclusionary in its practice given the focus on specific leadership roles.
