Environmental Leadership Research
Environmental Leadership Research
Environmental leadership was defined as practitioners that were shaping environmental science through research and/or working on the integration of environmental science into policy, management, or society at large, irrespective of their formal position.
Challenges of Environmental Leadership
Environmental practitioners have been struggling over the last 50 years to make a significant cultural change to reverse the tremendous anthropogenic destruction of the world's ecosystem.
The promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the decision-making process, has been insufficient, with minorities still being oppressed, ignored, and often silenced.
Lack of research on environmental leadership especially in terms of social science and behavioral science.
Purpose of this Study
The overall aim of the research was to gather data that would offer recommendations for individuals, organizations, and institutions to promote effective environmental leadership strategies. This study investigated how environmental practitioners conceptualized their leadership style using an adaptive leadership framework. Also, investigated the impact of leadership training on practitioners’ professional development including an evaluation of the demand and supply of leadership training in the environmental sector.
Key Findings
The complex, transboundary nature of environmental challenges required leaders to urge in all countries at all levels of the organizations, regardless of the level of authority held.
Individuals should be empowered to act when there was a need for change and adaptive leadership offered the ideal framework to promote this form of leadership.
This study demonstrated that there was a relatively high propensity at exhibiting this leadership style among practitioners
Gap between the academic training, professional training and effective environmental leadership training
The environmental sector has reached a critical stage where it has been failing to lead the culture evolution needed to reverse the human caused destruction of our planet.