Authors
Paterson, FredAffiliation
University of DerbyIssue Date
2017-11-12
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This chapter explores the nature of leadership for sustainability and questions whether there is a currently sufficient leadership capacity to have any realistic chance of accelerating the shift to a low-carbon (and ultimately green) economy. It mines empirical research from a variety of (disparate) literatures for useful insight into the type of leadership that could support our efforts to make this shift and highlights some of the ‘actionable’ concepts emerging from three largely discrete disciplines: socio-technical transitions, place-based (or civic) leadership and systems’ leadership. Finally, it argues that the new and distributed leadership skills and qualities required to support this system-wide innovation requires a strategic approach to building leadership capacity in cities and other localities that embrace the political, public service, community and business sectors (Hambleton and Howard 2012).Citation
Paterson, F. (2017). 'Leadership and the low carbon economy'. In Baranova, P., Conway, E., Lynch N., and Paterson., F. ‘The low carbon economy: understanding and supporting a sustainable transition’. Switzerland: Springer/ Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-197.Publisher
Springer/ Palgrave MacmillanDOI
10.1007/978-3-319-56753-2_8Additional Links
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-56753-2_8Type
Book chapterLanguage
enISBN
978-3-319-56752-5ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/978-3-319-56753-2_8