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dc.contributor.authorMehta, Lyla
dc.contributor.authorLeach, Melissa
dc.contributor.authorNewell, Peter
dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.contributor.authorSivaramakrishnan, K.
dc.contributor.authorWay, Sally-Anne
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-03T14:00:49Z
dc.date.available2014-11-03T14:00:49Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.identifier.citationMehta, 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.en_GB
dc.identifier.isbn185865285X
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4981
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS discussion papers;372
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectAgricultureen_GB
dc.subjectDevelopment Policyen_GB
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_GB
dc.subjectRightsen_GB
dc.subjectRural Developmenten_GB
dc.subjectTechnologyen_GB
dc.subjectWateren_GB
dc.titleExploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource managementen_GB
dc.typeIDS Discussion Paperen_GB
dc.rights.holderIDSen_GB
dc.identifier.koha118241


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