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Author Sveiby, Karl Erik

Title Treading lightly : the hidden wisdom of the world's oldest people / Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents About the authors -- Contents -- Nhunggabarra stories -- Paintings by Tex Skuthorpe -- Tex's story -- 1. In the beginning ... -- 2. The country is a story -- 3. The knowledge is in the story -- 4. Learning the story : the education system -- 5. Knowledge economy -- 6. Leadership : all have a role -- 7. The fourth level -- 8. The spirit of death arrives ... -- 9. The Nhunggabarra 'recipe' for sustainability -- 10. Sustain our world! -- Yuwaalayaay/Yuwaalaraay Glossary -- Further Reading and Research Notes -- References and Sources -- Index
Summary Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Contains some words in Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Australia
Sustainable development -- Australia
Human ecology -- Australia
Yuwaalaraay people D27.
Yuwaalaraay language D27.
Yuwaalayaay language D54.
Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language D23.
Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology.
Law - Indigenous - Leadership, authority and prestige.
Law - Indigenous - Inter-group relations and protocol.
Law - Indigenous - Dispute management.
Indigenous knowledge.
Indigenous knowledge - Ecology.
Social organisation.
Stories and motifs - Birds.
Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent.
Stories and motifs - Stars.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Ecology
Human ecology
Manners and customs
Sustainable development
Traditional ecological knowledge
Australia -- Social life and customs
Australia -- Environmental conditions
Narran / Terewah Lake (N NSW SH55-07)
Bokhara River (N NSW SH55-07, SW Qld SH55-03)
Narran River (N NSW SH55-07)
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Skuthorpe, Tex
LC no. 2006389233
ISBN 1741159644
9781741159646