Le leadership dans la recherche partenariale dans la perspective du développement durable.

Climate change resilience (CC) calls for actions to build and improve resilience that needs to be integrated into a holistic thinking and strategic planning process to give these actions the importance they deserve. In this context, we have the right to ask ourselves: who can take initiatives to launch these processes? Who is in a position to take the lead in launching more targeted actions? Leadership is not confined to people who are at the top of a hierarchy, ex. the mayor, the elected representatives, ... Such processes have been initiated in many jurisdictions across Canada by actors not associated with local or regional governments. In the context of sustainable development, leadership requires "leaders" to recognize the need to empower other actors, including citizens, to assume the leadership of other actions and processes within a particular strategic orientation – reinforce resilience to CC. This reasoning is based on the principles of sustainable development which requires recognition of the contribution of each actor / group of actors and an understanding of the interests of each person involved. It is important to empower as many people as possible and not to focus on elected officials and professional staff – hence the construction of decentralized leadership and, ultimately, new governance.