Stewarding Sustainability Transformations
An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation

Stewarding transformations needs to become the day-to-day management approach of governments, development agencies, corporations and civil society activists.

Petra Kuenkel

If we anchor vitality and resilience in our societies we can walk together into a better future.

Petra Kuenkel
The Book

The book Stewarding Sustainability Transformations- An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation is a Report to the Club of Rome 2019.

In the context of the world’s pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries it introduces the theory and practice of Collective Stewardship as a management tool that respects the integrity of human and natural systems

The book:
• 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.

Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.
An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation.

Dr. Petra Kuenkel's new book as a Report to the Club of Rome 2019
• 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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Vlogs
Let's Talk about Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.

Within 9 epiosodes of this vlog serie I speak in more detail about the contents of the book “Stewarding Sustainability Transformations”.and explain interconnections between today’s global sustainability challenges and the term of Collective Stewardship- as we cannot manage or steer systems changes alone, we need to find a way to do this collectively. Other interconnected terms I am discussusing are the related my expertise such as Sustainability Transformations, Collective Leadership, Collaboration Literacy and Patterns of Aliveness .

 

Intergrating Theory and Practice of Sustainability Transformations.
What is Going on in the World? The State of the World as a Collective Leadership Challenge.
Collective Leadership Compass for Navigating Change Proesses.
How to Address Global Transformations as Collective Leadership Tasks?
What Living Systems Theory has to do with Stewarding Sustainability Transformations?
Patterns of Aliveness as a core approach to Sustainability Transformations.
Multi Stakeholder Collaboration as Laboratories for Transformative Change.
Moving from Collaboration Literacy to Transformation Literacy.
The Choreography of Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.
Podcasts
Summary of chapter 1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World
Summary of chapter 2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change.
Summary of chapter 3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge.
Summary of chapter 4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.
Summary of chapter 5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory
Summary of chapter 6: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations in Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
Summary of chapter 8: The Choreography of Stewarding Sustainability Transformations

Other podcasts and vlogs on the book “Stewarding Sustainability Transformations- An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation” coming soon.