The Expansion of Sustainability through New Economic Space

The return of M ori land to a productive role in the
so-called Knowledge Economy entails the
innovation and diffusion of technologies relevant to
the sustainable development of this land.
Sustainable development requires substantive changes
to current land and resource use to mitigate
environmental degradation and contribute to
ecological and sociological resilience. This book
takes concerns for cultural resilience that have
arisen as political-economic strategies converge
within the global New Economic Space and will show
how the self-determined participation of M ori
growers in this space can paradoxically lead to an
expansion of the Traditional Economic Space of M ori.
This expansion is directed by M ori cultural logics,
located in M ori territories but seeking innovations
from an amorphous core . The interface between a
global economy and the localities of a M ori cultural
economy is defined by the interrogation of
innovations, through the innovators. A malleable
collectivity of actants passes through this porous
interrogation border, enrolled by M ori
as components of their resilience strategies and
therefore the endurance of M ori culture.

Autorentext
Dr. Simon Lambert is a fulltime researcher in the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University, New Zealand, and completed his doctorate in Economic Geography in 2008. Simon is married to Bridget Scott and they have three children. He is of New Zealand Maori descent (Ngati Ruapani ki Waikaremoana and Tuhoe).

Klappentext
The return of Maori land to a productive role in the so-called Knowledge Economy entails the innovation and diffusion of technologies relevant to the sustainable development of this land. Sustainable development requires substantive changes to current land and resource use to mitigate environmental degradation and contribute to ecological and sociological resilience. This book takes concerns for cultural resilience that have arisen as political-economic strategies converge within the global New Economic Space and will show how the self-determined participation of Maori growers in this space can paradoxically lead to an expansion of the Traditional Economic Space of Maori. This expansion is directed by Maori cultural logics, located in Maori territories but seeking innovations from an amorphous 'core'. The interface between a global economy and the localities of a Maori cultural economy is defined by the interrogation of innovations, through the innovators. A malleable collectivity of actants passes through this porous interrogation border, enrolled by Maori as components of their resilience strategies and therefore the endurance of Maori culture.