Looking for Leaders: Perceptions of Climate Change Leadership among Climate Change Negotiation Participants

摘要

The advocates of immediate and far-reaching measures to address climate change all emphasize the importance of leadership. Scholars have found that resource capabilities, legitimacy, and credibility are imperative for effective leadership.1 However, one basic prerequisite that is needed if leadership efforts are to bear fruit has been relatively neglected in the literature, namely the demand for leadership and the presence of prospective followers. Leadership is, as Arild Underdal reminds us, "a relationship between leaders and followers."2 It follows then that both parties to this relationship are important for a leadership relationship to come into existence and an actor aspiring to be a leader needs to be recognized as such: there can be no leaders without followers.