TY - JOUR AU - Ikegbu, Ephraim Ahamefula PY - 2017/10/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Harmonious Complementarity in Leadership: A Necessary Tool for Environment and Sustainability JF - European Journal of Sustainable Development JA - EJSD VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n3p141 UR - https://ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/508 SP - 141 AB - <p>This paper seeks to argue that harmonious complementarity in leadership remains a necessary tool<br />that will navigate environmental consciousness and sustainable development in Nigeria. The choice<br />of harmonious complementarity in leadership is pragmatically intended to utilize the facilities of<br />local circumstance to address the confronting challenges of our existence. Harmonious<br />complementarity in this context, implies the socio-cultural integration, co-operation and cross<br />fertilization of natural and gifted ideas by the people within a defined political entity for the purpose<br />of confronting a task that is before them. Under this ideal and leadership construction, the collective<br />opinions of the people are sought and the consciousness of sustaining, protecting, preserving and/or<br />promoting the environment becomes the collective task of the people; both the leader and the led.<br />This is because environmental consciousness and positive awareness by the leadership would have<br />risen to the climax that inappropriate laws and policies that were impairing sustainable development<br />and negative activities of the human elements on the environment will be a relic of the past. This<br />paper shall employ analytic and rational methods to drive home its argument.</p><p><em>Keywords: Harmonious Complementarity, Leadership, Sustainability, Environment</em></p> ER -