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Environmental Leadership
A Reference Handbook

Two Volume Set
Edited by:


September 2012 | 1 032 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Part of the SAGE Reference Series on Leadership, this 2-volume set tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of the environment and sustainability. Volume 1 of Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook considers such topics as environmental thought leadership (environmental ethics, conservation, eco-feminism, collective action and the commons and what we have termed contrarians); political leadership (the environmental challenge context for the expression of political leadership); governmental leadership (government initiatives to provide leadership in environmental management); private sector leadership (private sector leadership in environmental management as individuals, through organizations or through specific initiatives); nonprofit leadership (nonprofit sector leadership in topical areas such as conservation, advocacy, philanthropy and economic development); signaling events (events and their impact on the exercise of environmental leadership through individual, political and organizational actions); grassroots activism (profiles of individual environmental activists and considerations of how environmental leadership is exercised through activism); environmental leadership in journalism, literature and the arts; and environmental leadership in education.

In Volume 2 we cover topics that confront the particular intractable characteristics of environmental problem solving. Individual chapters focus on how environmental leadership actions or initiatives may be applied to address specific problems in context, offering both analyses and recommendations.

Overarching themes in this volume include taking action in the face of uncertainty (mitigating climate change impacts, adapting to climate change, protecting coastal ecosystems, protecting wetlands and estuaries, preserving forest resources, protecting critical aquifers, preventing the spread of invasive species, and identifying and conserving vital global habitats); promoting international cooperation in the face of conflicting agendas (designing and implementing climate change policy, reconciling species protection and free trade, allocating scarce resources, designing sustainable fisheries, addressing global overpopulation, preventing trade in endangered species, conserving global biodiversity, and mitigating ocean debris and pollution); addressing conflicts between economic progress and environmental protection (preserving open space, redesigning cities, promoting ecotourism, redeveloping brownfields, designing transit-oriented development, confronting impacts of factory farming, preventing non-point source agricultural pollution, confronting agricultural water use, addressing the impacts of agrochemicals, designing sustainable food systems, and valuing ecosystem services); addressing complex management challenges (energy efficiency, solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen economy, alternative vehicles, solid waste disposal, hazardous waste disposal, electronic waste disposal, life cycle analysis, and waste to energy); and addressing disproportionate impacts on the poor and the weak (preventing export of developed world waste to developing countries, minimizing co-location of poverty and polluting industries, protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, preventing environmental disease, protecting children's health, providing universal access to potable water, and protecting environmental refugees). The final three chapters examine next-generation environmental leaders.


This will prove an indispensable reference for scholars and educators and a valuable handbook for practitioners. Summing up: Essential.

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Key features
  • Signed chapters, a well-known General Editor, and a distinguished Editorial Board all serve to ensure quality of content.
  • Volume 1 focuses on key perspectives on environmental leadership (including philosophical, political, governmental, business, etc.) while Volume 2 examines key environmental leadership challenges (climate change, environmental justice, environment and conflict, endangered species and biodiversity, sustainable development, renewable and alternative energy, hazardous waste, etc.).
  • A concluding chapter provides thoughts on Next Generation Environmental Leaders.
  • By focusing on 100 key topics, the handbook provides students with greater depth of discussion than typically found in an encyclopedia entry but not as much jargon, detail or density as a journal article.  The handbook is composed of "mini-chapters" of 6,000-7,000 words each, as compared to typical encyclopedia entries of 500-3,000 words or research handbook chapters that often average 10,000-12,000 words or more.
  • Chapters are written in language and style that is broadly accessible, and each is followed by a brief bibliography and further readings and, where applicable, cross-references to related chapters.
  • A general bibliography, detailed index, and an online version of the work enhance accessibility for today's student audience.

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