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Leadership for Sustainable Development

Abstract Three popular terms-leadership, sustainable and development-are examined. The paper argues that these three terms must be separated rather than combined if they are to aid our understanding and management of human and natural resources to meet challenges of an increasing human population with rising expectations for ever rising material gains. The contrasting theories and practices of Chairman Mao and Taoism ‘test’ these ideas and suggest the sideboards of alternatives in applying the three concepts to social ecological challenges of the 21st century. A modern theory of diffusion of innovation suggests how leaders might establish a ‘sustainability science’ whose findings could encourage the acceptance by humanity of a covenant of constraint on material consumption in conjunction with an ark of technical opportunity for more effective and efficient systems of material management.