Leadership for Sustainability : An Action Research Approach.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Taking up the challenge -- 2 Educating for inquiring practice in sustainability -- 3 Ideas and practices -- The theory and practices of action research -- Worldviews -- Systemic thinking and practice -- Power -- Tempered radicals -- Action inquiry and the leadership development framework -- Relational practice -- Questions of gender: connecting personal and political -- Freefall writing as inquiry -- 4 Promoting alternative questioning, policies and practices in mainstream organisations -- Catalysing a strategic approach to sustainability in a major IT company -- On being a change agent for sustainability -- Imbuing work with ecological values -- Thinking out of the box: introducing action research into neighbourhood practice in the north-west of England -- Choose life -- Leadership for change in USA public food procurement: people, products and policy -- Two worlds? -- Putting my learning into practice -- 5 Establishing sustainability practices in organisations and industries -- Working below the parapet -- Protesting and engaging for change -- Building an iconic eco-factory -- 6 Paying attention to everyday practices of sustainable living -- Like a river flows: how do we call forth 'a world worthy of human aspiration'? -- Sport as inquiry: safe escape, activism and a journey into self -- 7 Seeking to shift systemic rules and awareness -- Lessons from the entrepreneurial path -- Creating places to stand and the levers to move the world -- Leading by nature -- The practice of making business responsible -- The gap between discourse and practice: holding promoters of Amazon infrastructure projects to account -- 8 Connecting up stakeholders for more sustainable outcomes -- Katine -- Challenging the system with the success of inquiry -- Collaborative conservation.

9 Itinerant change agents to professions and sectors -- 'Holding up the tightrope'-helping us all act for sustainability -- Doing things right-and doing the right thing -- 10 Working through community and society -- The journey to CONVERGE -- GYVA LT: an initiative to promote environmentally friendly living and sustainability in Lithuania -- CultureWork for a world in transition -- 11 Working with young people -- Growing food-growing people -- Learning for sustainability: living a new worldview -- A journey of dialoguing: peace and inner peace -- 12 Reflections -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- About the authors -- Index.

Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organizational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.

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