dc.contributor.author | Mehta, Lyla | |
dc.contributor.author | Leach, Melissa | |
dc.contributor.author | Newell, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Scoones, Ian | |
dc.contributor.author | Sivaramakrishnan, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Way, Sally-Anne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-03T14:00:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-03T14:00:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 185865285X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4981 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS discussion papers;372 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en_GB |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en_GB |
dc.subject | Development Policy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Environment | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rights | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rural Development | en_GB |
dc.subject | Technology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water | en_GB |
dc.title | Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management | en_GB |
dc.type | IDS Discussion Paper | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | IDS | en_GB |
dc.identifier.koha | 118241 | |