Pathways to Sustainability: Integrating Environment, Growth and Indigenous Wisdom

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We are living in a world today that seems to be caught between two realities: a dramatic increase of technological innovations and economic power, and a growth of ecological emergencies, socio-economic disparities, and vulnerabilities[cite: 21]. The industrial development models based on unlimited resource extraction have failed to create a sustainable future[cite: 21]. To meet this need, Pathways to Sustainability: Integrating Environment, Growth, and Indigenous Wisdom offer a comprehensive theory that contends that sustainability is best achieved when all three – scientific solutions, inclusive economic models and traditional wisdom systems – work together[cite: 21]. In this volume, rather than opposing high tech solutionism and preservationist nostalgia, the cutting edge tools and traditional ecological practices are shown to reinforce each other in four interwoven thematic domains.