ABSTRACT
A crisis of global sustainability has evolved as a result of the global application of the Western development paradigm of ‘progress’ through unfettered capitalism with little regard for social, cultural and ecological consequences. The Western development paradigm and its focus on material economic indicators as the sole measure of development perpetuates a distorted vision of what is in fact a multi-dimensional and multi-contextual process. Even the worddevelopment may be defined, from an Indigenous perspective, as an extension of colonialism (Shehan 2003: 2–3).
