Hybridizing sustainability: towards a new praxis for the present human predicament

Both Indigenous and Western knowledge systems centre on improving our understanding of the world, an end more achievable through a plural coexistence where time-tested Indigenous knowledge systems can be paired with Western scientific insights.

“Both centre on improving our understanding of the world around us (Cajete, 2000)-an end that surely becomes more achievable through a plural coexistence (Howitt & Suchet-Pearson, 2006; see glossary: Table 1) where timetested Indigenous knowledge systems can be paired with revelatory Western scientific insights (Benessia et al., 2012;Mistry & Berardi, 2016;Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000).”