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Abstract
Innovation for sustainable environments is typically thought of as synonymous with science, technology and the future. This paper argues a case for the history of public policy-making as having a contribution to make to research and teaching in the field of sustainability education. It innovation of the first forest service in Australia as one example of the leadership in planned settlement exercised by South Australia′s leading public servant, George Goyder. It argues that Goyder′s
argues that, alongside science, students of sustainable environments need knowledge of the humanities and social sciences. In order to do so it offers an historical case study of the leadership of sustainable public forestry was enabled by two elements. Firstly, his vision of what an ideal civil society looked like. And secondly by an early education that taught him not only to synthesize elements of environmental science, humanities and social science in order to solve complex environmental problems, but taught him the principle of thinking with ′head, heart and hand′, that is to consider the logical, ethical and experiential in decision-making. This historical case study offers an example of how issues of sustainability may be introduced to learners of leadership so that they may better appreciate the social, economic, political and physical elements of problem-solving
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