Uncertainty on a Himalayan Scale : An Institutional Theory of Environmental Perception

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Editorial: Himal Books, 2007

9993343811 / 9789993343813

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Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Decision-making under contradictory certainties. I. Welcome to uncertainty: 2. Which way the spiral? 3. Getting to grips with uncertainty. 4. How have we got to grips with uncertainty? II. Knowing where to hit it: 5. The systems approach. 6. A conceptual framework. 7. Some strategic implications. 8. Specific recommendations. III. Rare animals, poor people and big agencies: 9. A one-sided conversation. 10. From monologue to dialogue. References. Index. "The Himalaya, all the experts agree, face serious environmental problems; they are caught in a downward spiral. The rate of fuelwood consumption, for instance, is asserted to be far in excess of the rate at which the forest grows. However, the expert estimates of these two rates vary by such immense factors that we simply cannot say whether the spiral, if it exists, is upward or downward. There is something severely wrong with the Himalaya but we cannot tell what it is. The traditional response - a call for more research - has not worked and the perceived urgency of the situation calls for action now, before it is too late. The challenge is to furnish a non-arbitrary strategic framework for the action. Putting such a framework together calls for a new synthesis of hard and soft science. When, try as you may, you cannot find out what the facts in the Himalaya really are you can still do something. You can find out why it is that you can't find out what they are. The authors begin by showing how it is the institutions and their contradictory problem definitions - the international agencies insisting that there are too many people; the people themselves insisting that there is not enough food - that continually muddle the hard scientists' efforts to pinpoint what is really going on and why. In an important sense, they argue, the institutions are the facts. They then go on to show how a combination of hard and soft approaches - obtainable physical facts correlated with obtainable institutional facts - can provide a framework for action--immediate action. This, because it anticipates the grassroots obstacles that all too often get in the way of conventionally designed development programmes, actually improves on the sorts of hard-fact dominated frameworks that are unobtainable in the Himalaya anyway. The uncertainty is itself the key. That is the surprising, and hopeful, message of this book, which remains as relevant even twenty years after it first appeared.".…

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Título
Uncertainty on a Himalayan Scale : An Institutional Theory of Environmental Perception
Autor
Michael Thompson; Michael Warburton and Tom Hatley
Editorial
Himal Books
Año de publicación
2007
Estado
Fine
Encuadernación
Soft cover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
9993343811
ISBN 13
9789993343813

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