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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 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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Zustand: Very Good. 1997. Paperback. 8vo. Poetry. Good clean copy. First edition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Zustand: Good. 1997. First Edition. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed with dedication from the author on first page. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

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27 pp.; 41.9 x 27.9 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue no. 12 of ZG Magazine, edited by Rosetta Brooks. Contents include: "Editorial: The New Fundamentalism;" "Extract from an Interview with British Jan Wandja; "All Things Being Equal," by Silvia Kolbowski; "Auras: Dilation to Overthrow," by Stuart Piggott; "Advertising Death's Space," by Rosetta Brooks; "Fashion: Sacred Symbols/Magical Rites," by Krystina Kitsis; "Interview with Rhys Chatham & Joseph Nechvatal"; "The Frozen Land," by Peter Halley; "Disco Inferno," by Carlo McCormick; "Works," by Holly Warburton; "What is Love? Describing Quenelle," by Paul Taylor and Adrian Martin; "Transcendence & Titillation," by Dena Shottenkirk; "Duchamp: Lower East Side," by Richard Flood; "The Geography of Time," by Jonathan Miles and "The Shadow Reflected," by Robert Kleyn. Back cover by Michael Smith. Reference : "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 312. Fair / Good. 6.2 cm. water damage to bottom of recto carrying through to first four pages with dark soiling. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Rubbing and light creasing of spine edge and rubbing off cover edges with 6 mm. tear to top edge of recto and 2 mm. tear to top edge of verso and 7 mm. tear to bottom edge of verso. Bumping off top and bottom edge of periodical and additional light rubbing of covers. Due to size additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…