Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education

Peter Rands

ISBN 10: 1350143197 / ISBN 13: 9781350143197

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated. Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education provides key learning from the authors' extensive academic, leadership and professional experience in this area, supplemented with reference to key learning from other leaders and institutions.Janet Fraser-Haddock, Peter Rands and Stephen Scoffham bring together the wide range of influences and considerations to succeed, including: an understanding of the core constructs of leadership theory and sustainability the range of perspectives through which to view and value sustainability successful activities and actions undertaken by sustainability leaders in the higher education sector models and methods to successfully implement sustainability that are new to the sector influencers on the sustainability agenda, whether policy- or demand-led, external or internal barriers to and enablers of success for leaders at individual, institutional and sector levels These factors all combine to provide a framework for the reader within which to consider leadership for sustainability, both at an individual level and within the higher education culture and organisational norms. The authors provide a theoretical underpinning of key concepts, supplemented by examples of practice across the sector, both within the UK and internationally. Case studies from the UK, Australia, North America and India all bring to life the key opportunities and challenges of leading the sustainability agenda across a range of higher education institutions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350143197
• ISBN 13: 9781350143197
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 13D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 363 grams

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Synopsis

Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated. Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education provides key learning from the authors' extensive academic, leadership and professional experience in this area, supplemented with reference to key learning from other leaders and institutions.
Janet Fraser-Haddock, Peter Rands and Stephen Scoffham bring together the wide range of influences and considerations to succeed, including:
· an understanding of the core constructs of leadership theory and sustainability
· the range of perspectives through which to view and value sustainability
· successful activities and actions undertaken by sustainability leaders in the higher education sector
· models and methods to successfully implement sustainability that are new to the sector
· influencers on the sustainability agenda, whether policy- or demand-led, external or internal
· barriers to and enablers of success for leaders at individual, institutional and sector levels

These factors all combine to provide a framework for the reader within which to consider leadership for sustainability, both at an individual level and within the higher education culture and organisational norms. The authors provide a theoretical underpinning of key concepts, supplemented by examples of practice across the sector, both within the UK and internationally. Case studies from the UK, Australia, North America and India all bring to life the key opportunities and challenges of leading the sustainability agenda across a range of higher education institutions.

About the Authors

Janet Haddock-Fraser is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability and Leadership at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She was Chair of Trustees for the EAUC: The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education between 2016-2020 and is a Board Member for both the Land Trust and the Peak District National Park Authority, UK.

Peter Rands is Director of Sustainability Development at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is a Fellow of Sustainable Futures Leadership Academy and has achieved ISO14001 accreditation for a whole-university Environmental Management System.

Stephen Scoffham is Visiting Reader in Sustainability and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and was President of the UK Geographical Association (2018-19).

Tanya Fitzgerald is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia, Australia.

Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.