Don Kent

Leadership Practices for Healthy Lands Don Kent

How do we maintain the health of lands and waters 2 to 3 times more valuable than the global gross domestic product? How do we stop the unprecedented rate at which we are destroying, degrading, and unsustainably using of lands and waters on which we depend? Without ecosystem services, how will we survive climate change-related sea level rise, heat, and intense storms? How will we purify our air and water and have enough food to eat? Where will we find the medicines necessary to cure disease? And where will be relax and recreate? Don Kent, PhD believes that ecosystem value can be sustained, and catastrophe can be avoided. The key is to augment and transform traditional regulation, protection, and education practices with problem-based and social and emotional learning that produces inventive, empathic, big-picture, and boundary-crossing skills. Skills and practices that improve decision-making, promote change, create a shared vision, and motivate and enable others. That facilitate collaboration and enhance creativity and innovation. And ultimately, skills and practices that build communities of practice. Leadership Practices for Healthy Lands illustrates how anyone can develop the skills and practices needed to sustain and restore healthy lands, at any scale, ensuring well-being and prosperity for all now and into the future.