Leadership for Sustainability

What can leadership for sustainability mean? Sustainability leadership is a creature of governance and establishing conditions for good sustainability governance enhances its chances to survive and thrive. Against this background, we consider which roles and functions of leadership might prove more helpful when building sustainable communities, and, while eschewing formulaic recipes or heroic figures, we come to delineate four roles which can be taken up, in distributive leadership, under conditions where sustainability asserts itself as an urgent policy priority. We provide suggestions for both the analysis and crafting of leadership narratives, in the knowledge that both are highly dependent on the context of the community, its problems and the coevolutions in its governance system.