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Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Why is it Difficult to be an Environmental Leader?
Timescale
Individual vs. Collective Responsibility
Scientific Uncertainty and Complexity
Morality
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Leadership Profile: David Orr
Orr’s ecological architecture standards:
1. Be integrated with the curriculum.
2. Evolve with advancing technology.
3. Discharge no waste (i.e., drinking water in, drinking water out).
4. Use sunlight as fully as possible
5. Use only wood from forests certified as managed sustainably.
6. Minimize the use of toxic materials.
7. Be integrated with the landscape as a single design system.
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Advantages to Leadership of the Environment
Long term survival
Stakeholder Engagement
Reputation
Ethics
Market Opportunities
Regulatory Avoidance
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
System-Wide Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability
Economic Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Transformational Environmental Leadership
Transactional Leaders
vs.
Transformational Leaders
Transformational Leadership embodies the ethical orientation, motivation of stakeholders and interest in the broader community that often characterize strong corporate environmental responsibility initiatives.
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Questions for Discussion and Review
What characteristics of environmental issues make these issues difficult to manage in an organization? What makes these issues difficult to deal with on a personal level?
Where do you rank environmental issues among issues of concern to you? Where do you think environmental issues rank in terms of leadership challenges? What areas are more or less important?
Using an environmental issue that you have heard about in the media or in your classes, list some scientific facts and areas of uncertainty. If you wanted to set a positive leadership example on this issue, what would you do?
What reaction to the term “sustainability” do you have? Does this term make intrinsic sense to you? Do you believe this term can motivate others toward environmental action? What does sustainability mean to you?
What types of situations other than environmental issues does the “Tragedy of the Commons” scenario apply to? Have you experienced these situations?
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
Questions for Discussion and Review
Do you think that individuals and societies have moral obligations toward other species, people in other societies, and/or future generations of humans? Why?
If you were a shareholder in Interface Carpeting, would you be happy with the program and policies that Ray Anderson has put into place? Why or why not?
Which of the six points in the chapter that justify environmental leadership do you think is the most important? Why? Which is least important? Why?
Who would you consider a transformational leader? Why?
Compare the theory of transformational leadership with the theory of sustainability leadership. Where are they similar? Where are they different?
Chapter 13: Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
