Overview
Serves as a guidebook for decision-makers, researchers and activists who need to navigate complex change towards sustainable development
Inspires academics and practitioners alike to explore new routes towards co-creating responsible futures in the era of the Anthropocene
Translates a pattern approach to systems theory into a practical guidance for planning and implementing interventions across all sectors of society
Sets a new direction in the field of sustainability transformations and will become a foundation for planning collective action and achieving impact at scale
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About the author
Petra Kuenkel is a full Member of the International Club of Rome and the Executive Director of the Collective Leadership Institute, a Germany and South Africa based social enterprise building collaboration competency for transformative change towards world sustainability. As a seasoned systems scientist, visionary author and expert in complex multi-stakeholder settings she promotes systems transformations by scaling-up collective stewardship skills for decision-makers from corporations, public sector and civil society. With her educational background in change management, organizational psychology and political science she has profound international experiences in corporate change, development cooperation and policy implementation. She is a leading strategic advisor to pioneering international initiatives that tackle sustainability challenges. Based on successful transformation processes, she developed the dialogic change methodology and the Collective Leadership Compass, a guiding tool for navigating change in complex multi-actor settings. Kuenkel’s ground-breaking publication The Art of Leading Collectively received international attention; her writings have appeared in numerous professional journals as well as the Guardian and Huffington Post.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations
Book Subtitle: An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation
Authors: Petra Kuenkel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03691-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03690-4Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03691-1Published: 20 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environment Studies, Environmental Management, Science, multidisciplinary