Caring for the Planet While Caring for Each Other: Leadership Collectives for Sustainability Transformations

SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

The world faces multiple, interconnected sustainability challenges. Researchers publish ever more findings on trends and developments, knowledge on feedbacks and drivers, or frameworks for methodological approaches. While essential to sustainability theory and practice, however, this is not sufficient to induce real change. In their recent paper, Care et al. (2021) argue that sustainability transformations also require polycentric leadership collectives. The authors share the insights they collected in the context of a training program for early-career scholars with a focus on leadership competencies for sustainability over the past 2 years. Thereby, they provide a synthesis of opportunities, gaps, and critical needs for an alternative model of leadership.

“O. Care” serves as a first-author pseudonym for publications by the Careoperative, a group of researchers from different institutions and disciplines. Right: Picture of a visit to Voelkel juices. (Both pictures from Gunnar Dreßler)

According to Care et al. (2021), current leadership models remain…

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