Introduction
This chapter develops a theory of sustainable leadership that hinges upon the purposes toward which leadership is applied. Through synthesizing insights from the literatures of a wide range of fields, it argues that sustainable leadership must foster the long-term health, integrity, and resiliency of human communities and nature. Sustainable leadership, comprised of fitting responses to converging socio-ecological crises, is counter-hegemonic, inclusive, place-centered, and learned. Sustainable leadership serves integrative and normative roles in creating/restoring the health of the human/natural world. It is, therefore, highly relevant to ...
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