Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship: Global Initiatives Towards Engaged Sustainability

This book builds on recent advances in the theory of sustainable development and links it with environmental stewardship in a dialectical manner, as envisioned by global scholars in this emerging field. Environmental stewardship deals with practical issues of ecosystem management and governance to address changes in socio-ecological systems to sustain the supply and availability of ecosystem services by society. It means reducing our total footprint on the planet, not just carbon footprint. 

Truly global in scope, this volume is a humble offering of more than 12 scholars and practitioners from around the world to the exciting adventure of sustainable development and eco-stewardship. Featuring topics such as climate change, organizational sustainability, green innovation, and urban governance, this book is useful for policy makers, managers of NGOs, and sustainability researchers in developing engaging strategies for a more sustainable planet.

Satinder Dhiman is Professor of Management and Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program at the Woodbury University School of Business, Burbank, CA, USA. His research focuses on organization behavior, workplace spirituality, workplace well-being and fulfillment, sustainability, servant leadership, mindfulness, social entrepreneurship, education, organization development, and Eastern and Western philosophy in leadership. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and served as author, translator, editor, co-author, co-editor of over 40 management, leadership, spirituality, sustainability and accounting-related books and research monographs. He is also co-series editor of the Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership series (Springer) and Editor-in-Chief of seven multi-author Major Reference Works including Handbook of Engaged Sustainability (Springer 2018), Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Wellbeing (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and the Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership (Springer, forthcoming).