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Leadership for Sustainability - Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher

Leadership for Sustainability

Myth, Metaphor and Narrative in Governance
Buch | Hardcover
265 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-62098-7 (ISBN)
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Tackles the challenge of translating global sustainability goals into local action. Through concepts of myth, metaphor and narrative, the authors offers a framework for understanding sustainability as a productive fiction that fosters environmental awareness, appreciation, and long-term planning. Aimed at advanced students and professionals.
Offering a bold and original perspective, Leadership for Sustainability explores how leadership can drive meaningful sustainability transitions through local and regional governance. The authors introduce an interpretive framework developed around the concepts of myth, metaphor and narrative, revealing sustainability as a highly productive fiction – one that enables communities to observe their environment differently and envision and organize long-term futures. Through critical analysis of sustainability narratives and a careful dismantling of common leadership myths, this book uncovers the functions and roles of leadership within governance systems. This approach illuminates how leadership can foster new modes of observation, understanding, and organization that reconnect communities, governance, and the environment. Featuring a clear and concise overview of key issues, tools, concepts and contexts for the understanding of leadership for sustainability, this is an essential insight for scholars and practitioners working in sustainability, environmental issues, leadership studies, public policy, and administration.

Kristof Van Assche is Professor of Planning, Governance and Development at the University of Alberta. He is also affiliated with the University of the Free State in South Africa; Bonn University's Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Germany; and, in Canada, with Memorial University of Newfoundland's Harris Centre for Regional Policy and the University of Saskatchewan's Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Monica Gruezmacher is Lecturer and Research Associate in Sustainability and Development at the University of Alberta and Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at the Environmental Policy Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Prologue; 1. Basic concepts: leadership, sustainability and governance; 2. Narratives and interpretation; 3. Metaphors and the amplification of meaning; 4. Metaphors and narratives of sustainability; 5. Five myths of sustainability leadership; 6. Leadership for sustainability; 7. Sustainability leadership and strategy; Glossary; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-009-62098-3 / 1009620983
ISBN-13 978-1-009-62098-7 / 9781009620987
Zustand Neuware
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