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    Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management

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    1999
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    Mehta, Lyla
    Leach, Melissa
    Newell, Peter
    Scoones, Ian
    Sivaramakrishnan, K.
    Way, Sally-Anne
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    The paper outlines three different forms of uncertainty: ecological, livelihood and knowledge uncertainty. By reviewing a large literature, the paper demonstrates how conventional understandings of institutions neglect the everyday contexts within which institutions are located and the overlapping domains between different institutional arrangements. By drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches to understanding institutions and by exploring case studies around water, pastoralism and biotechnology, the paper argues that a sophisticated understanding of the relationship between institutions and uncertainty calls for a radical re-thinking of conventional ways of viewing resources, legal systems and, property regimes. This calls for new forms of governance, inclusionary decision-making arenas, the addressing of questions of power and the overhauling of sharp dichotomies between local and the global as well as formal and informal processes.
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    Mehta, L., M. Leach, P. Newell, I. Scoones, K. Sivaramakrishnan and S.A. Way (1999) Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management, IDS Discussion Paper 372, Brighton: IDS.
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    IDS discussion papers;372
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