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18 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 197 (2005-2006)
The Indigenous Sustainability Paradox and the Quest for Sustainability in Post-Colonial Societies: Is Indigenous Knowledge All That Is Needed

handle is hein.journals/gintenlr18 and id is 205 raw text is: ARTICLES The Indigenous Sustainability Paradox and the Quest for Sustainability in Post-Colonial Societies: Is Indigenous Knowledge All that is Needed? BosIRE MARAGIA* I. Introduction ......................................... 198 I. Indigenous Knowledge and the Indigenous Sustainability Claim ...... 202 A. What is Indigenous Knowledge? ........................... 202 B. What is Sustainable Development? ......................... 204 C. The Indigenous Sustainability Claim ........................ 210 III. Indigenous Sustainability: Lessons from Post-Colonial Societies ...... 213 A. Challenges to Studying Nature-Society Relations in Post-Colonial Societies .... ...................................... 214 B. The Case for Indigenous Sustainability ..................... 216 C. The Case Against Indigenous Sustainability ................... 219 1. Indigenous Societies Were Not Necessarily Sustainable ..... 219 a. Economic Sustainability .......................... 220 b. Ecological Sustainability ........................ 221 c. Social Sustainability ............................ 225 IV. Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Post-Colonial Societies . .. 228 A. Indigenous Knowledge is Unlikely to Promote Sustainability in Post-Colonial Societies ................................. 228 1. Uncertainties Regarding the Meaning and Scope of Indigenous Knowledge ...................................... 229 2. Modem Property and Governance Regimes as Barriers to Indigenous Sustainability Initiatives ..................... 231 3. Straddling as a Limitation to Indigenous Sustainability Initiatives ....................................... 234 * The author works at the State Department and is a former Adjunct Professor of Geography & Urban Studies and Political Science at Temple University and Towson University (2004-2005). He is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and holds the following degrees: Ph.D. (Urban Affairs & Public Policy) & M.A. (International Relations), University of Delaware; LL.M., Harvard Law School; LL.M. (Corporate Finance), Widener University School of Law; Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law; and LL.B. (Honors), University of Nairobi. 0 2006, Bosire Maragia. The author would like to thank the GIELR editors for insightful comments to the draft. Any errors are of course his. The views expressed here are the author's and do not represent those of the State Department or the Federal Government.

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