Leadership in sustainability planning: propagating visions through empathic communication

Despite their lack of decision-making power, planners frequently prevail in advancing strong sustainability agendas. A review of leadership and planning literature suggests that they employ collaborative practice. Using an ethnographic methodology that draws from the stories and actions of six plann...

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Published in:Journal of environmental planning and management 2015-03, Vol.58 (3), p.464-481
Main Author: Senbel, Maged
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Communication
Decision making
empathic communication
Environment management
Environmental planning
Forging
Leadership
Methodology
Planners
Propagation
relationship building
Strategic planning
Studies
Surveys
Sustainability
sustainability planning
Vision
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Summary:Despite their lack of decision-making power, planners frequently prevail in advancing strong sustainability agendas. A review of leadership and planning literature suggests that they employ collaborative practice. Using an ethnographic methodology that draws from the stories and actions of six planners with sustainability mandates, supplemented with a survey of their staff and colleagues, this research examines how they do it. Findings suggest that despite variety in their organisational contexts, the planners relied on strong visions and on forging and maintaining relationships to set and implement sustainability mandates. The planners deployed participative and collaborative values selectively in support of their mandates.
ISSN:0964-0568
1360-0559
DOI:10.1080/09640568.2013.862166