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The challenge of this book has been to engage with the metanarrative of ESD to consider theoretical and practical mechanisms to overcome the intra-generational inequalities inherent to this metanarrative, and resulting institutionalised practice. The aim of the book has been to consider ways to move beyond the dichotomies of exploitation inherent in this metanarrative. This chapter illuminates the theoretical and empirical significance of this research for contemporary research and practice in the field of environment and development. The following section presents the conclusions of the research: the role that the new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity has for theoretical debate and practical on-ground action. These conclusions synthesise the claims made by the new framework with empirical reflection for social action. Working towards cultural hybridity depends upon both theoretical tools and practical strategies. The theoretical tools provide the basis and impetus for social action. The practical strategies provide ideas for social action and represent the praxis between theory and action/practice. The chapter ends with a discussion that imagines the role and design of formal government institutions, on-ground projects and the individual or the self for social action to enable cultural hybridity.
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Maclean, K. (2015). Working Together to Better Manage the Country. In: Cultural Hybridity and the Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-323-1_11
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