Indigenous Values and Sustainability

Leveraging Organisational Values for Sustainability Initiatives

For the industrialised world many consider sustainability to have been time stamped by the release of the book Silent Spring (Carson, 1962) and yet the idea of "sustainability" is one that has had moderate take-up by people in the Industrialised world and their approach the future. It can be argued that a push for lifestyle improvement and material goods has had a lagging negative effect that h...

Measuring Personality and Values Across Cultures: Imported Versus Indigenous Measures

Cross-cultural studies of personality have shown cultural similarities and differences in the manifestation of personality traits. In interpreting cultural differences in personality traits, we should consider not only the experiences of people in different cultures, but also the measures adopted and the cultural orientations of researchers themselves. In this chapter, we discuss the considerat...

Indigenous Values and Health Systems Stewardship in Circumpolar Countries

Circumpolar regions, and the nations within which they reside, have recently gained international attention because of shared and pressing public policy issues such as climate change, resource development, endangered wildlife and sovereignty disputes. In a call for national and circumpolar action on shared areas of concern, the Arctic states health ministers recently met and signed a declaratio...

Values for sustainability: the necessity of transcendence and sacred realms

Forest Values in Northern Ontario: Public Tradeoffs and Sustainability

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