Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability: Indigenous Stories From Around the Globe

Business, management, and other researchers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US present 13 essays on sustainability from the perspective of clans and tribes in relation to civilizations, entrepreneurship and innovation, leadership, politics and public policy, and health and well-being. They discuss barriers to economic, social, and environmental sustainability and how tribes and clans around the world are overcoming them. They explore sustainable indigenous water rights in Australia and how First People's tribal and clan wisdom has been ignored by the Australian government, even though it could inform land management; indigenous entrepreneurs in Australia and social entrepreneurship and innovation among Maori tribes and clans in New Zealand; the fate of traditional Aymara and Quechua quinoa farmers following sustainable practices when they lost out on global competition based on price rather than quality; the ways historical clan and tribal leaders look for lessons in sustainability; the Pushtun conflict resolution method called the the jirga, traditional conflict resolution methods in indigenous communities, and how the White Earth Anishinaabeg protected wild rice by acknowledging its inherent rights through tribal legislation; and the relationship between indigenous culture from the perspective of health and well-being, including Maori culture, indigenous stories and practices related to fire as an analogy for health, and spirituality in Africa in indigenous communities. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)