The Low Carbon Economy Understanding and Supporting a Sustainable Tr
This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transfo
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POLINA BARANOVA ELAINE CONWAY NICOLA LYNCH FRED PATERSON
THE LOW CARBON ECONOMY Understanding and Supporting a Sustainable Transition
The Low Carbon Economy “We are in the midst of a metamorphosis. Much of today’s thinking, governance structures, leadership styles and managerial methods are inured in the mechanistic ‘caterpillar logic’ of yesterday. It’s time to move. The transition to a low carbon economy is an important part of a profound shift afoot that challenges who we are as human beings and our sense of place and purpose in this world. Transformational times demand transformational leadership that facilitates and catalyses this necessary metamorphosis. This book provides insightful and important guidance, sign-posts and tools for those of us actively engaged in the day-to-day practicalities of this unfolding and emancipating yet challenging and demanding metamorphosis while learning to let go of yesterday’s strictures and structures. The transition to a more sustainable and harmonious world is seismic and systemic in nature. This book goes to the heart of what this means for place-based transformation and the dawning of a new ‘civic consciousness’.” —Giles Hutchins, author of Future Fit and other books, and Chairman of The Future Fit Leadership Academy “This timely, scholarly contribution focuses on the significant issues surrounding sustainable transitions to a low carbon economy. Each author successfully elucidates hitherto complex aspects of important topics in the field under enquiry. It successfully draws on current research findings and other scholarly activities to present each chapter topic. Comprehensive coverage offers a welcome addition to this growing body of literature, and will prove interesting to both academic and practitioner audiences/readerships.” —Joyce Liddle, Professor of Public Leadership and Management, Institute of Public Management & Territorial Governance, Aix-Marseille University, France “At both the global and the local scale in a ‘shared and interdependent world,’ there is an urgent need for us to think through, and also to promote and enact, more responsible approaches to leadership and governance across economy, society and environment. The arguments and ideas developed in this work by Polina Baranova, Elaine Conway, Nicola Lynch and Fred Paterson appear at a critical time – and the authors make an important contribution to our understanding of the opportunities and challenges that are presented by the transition to a low carbon economy. The implicit call in this work for a re-think
of leadership and governance at all levels resonates with a growing recognition that if we are to find and encourage workable solutions to the many and complex problems posed by climate change, then we must invest in, and also better incentivise, collaborative and creative working at all geographical scales. This book is a ‘must-read’ for all of those who are researching, promoting and enacting genuinely sustainable and humane approaches to the world’s transition towards a low carbon economy.
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