Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation

cg.contribution.worldfishauthorCohen, P.J.
cg.contribution.worldfishauthorMills, D.J.
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of West England
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Exeter
cg.contributor.affiliationJames Cook University
cg.contributor.affiliationWorldFish
cg.contributor.crpAquatic Agricultural Systems
cg.creator.idPhilippa Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943
cg.description.themeMiscellaneous themesen_US
cg.identifier.ISIindexedISI indexed
cg.identifier.statusLimited access
cg.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015577887
cg.identifier.worldfish3869
cg.subject.agrovocdevelopment
cg.subject.agrovocecology
cg.subject.agrovocenvironmental protection
cg.subject.agrovocgovernance
cg.subject.agrovocresource conservation
cg.subject.cabiconservation
dc.creatorCase, P.
dc.creatorEvans, L.
dc.creatorFabinyi, M.
dc.creatorCohen, P.J.
dc.creatorHicks, C.
dc.creatorPrideaux, M.
dc.creatorMills, D.J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-11T19:41:35Z
dc.date.available2018-09-11T19:41:35Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractLeadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the "crisis of governance" facing the Earths natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically interrogated, narratives of environmental leadership remain relatively neglected in the academic literature. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, to highlight the centrality and importance of environmental sciences construction and mobilization of leadership discourse. Second, to offer a critical analysis of environmental sciences deployment of leadership theory and constructs. The authors build on a review of leadership research in environmental science that reveals how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in this field of study. It is argued that environmental leadership research reflects rather narrow framings of leadership. An analytical typology proposed by Keith Grint is employed to demonstrate how any singular framing of environmental leadership as person, position, process, result, or purpose is problematic and needs to be supplanted by a pluralistic view. The paper concludes by highlighting key areas for improvement in environmental leadership research, with emphasis on how a political ecology of environmental crisis narratives contributes to a more critical body of research on leadership in environmental science."
dc.description.versionPeer Review
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dc.identifier3869_2015_Case_Rethinking.pdf
dc.identifier.citationLeadership, 11(4): 396-423
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015577887en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/728
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.sourceLeadership
dc.titleRethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCase, P. et al. (2015). Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation. Leadership, 11(4): 396-423

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