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Tenzing Ingty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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High mountain communities and climate change: adaptation, traditional ecological knowledge, and Institutions
Climatic Change, 2017Co-Authors: Tenzing IngtyAbstract:Our planet has already committed to climate change and will experience its associated impacts; thus, mitigation along with adaptation strategies cannot be mutually exclusive. Yet, international and national policies to tackle climate change have focused more on mitigation than adaptation. On the other hand, indigenous communities have been continuously adapting to environmental stresses for millennia, including more recent cascading impacts of climate change. Indigenous communities have developed a wealth of information in the form of their traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), based on their observations of the obvious linkages between changing climatic conditions and biodiversity. Here, I hypothesize that in harsh environments such as the alpine Himalaya, social systems particularly local Institutions that are largely based on TEK are important in improving adaptive capacity by providing social, economic, and ecological security to the community. I provide an insight into the adaptation strategies of two communities that inhabit the alpine zones of the Sikkim Himalaya, in India. We address two broad questions: (1) How are indigenous communities in the vulnerable alpine zones of the Himalaya adapting to the complex challenges posed by climate change particularly in conjunction with their indigenous Governing Institution? We give examples of adaptation strategies and broadly categorize them into six groups, namely (a) Institutional capital, (b) Rationing, (c) Forecasting, (d) Mobility, (e) Economic diversification, and (f) Communal pooling. (2) How can TEK be integrated with climate change sciences for improving data availability and better policy? I conclude with a framework that uses a holistic approach complementing the rigor of science with the wealth of TEK to suggest pathways for improved policy response to climate change.
Anna Cieslewska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The relationship between the traditional, self-Governing Institution of mahallah, state administration and international donors
Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 2013Co-Authors: Anna CieslewskaAbstract:The central purpose of the field research was to examine the interaction of a traditional, central Asian, self-Governing, communal Institution – mahallah – with international organizations and local administration in Tajikistan. The main issues considered here are the nature of the current transformation of mahallah, in the context of an interplay of various approaches and practices, with regard to Tajik state policy, as well as the various concepts of local development introduced by the aid agencies.
Anamika Chauhan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Study on Quality of Educational Environment In Private Schools
Global journal for research analysis, 2016Co-Authors: Anamika ChauhanAbstract:Education is the only source to attain our comprehensive individual and social aims of life. It has capabilities and powers to help communities and nations lead in their march towards better and higher quality of life. Enlightened, emancipated and empowered teachers plays very important roles in creating social harmony, inclusion and very important, a learning society. The quality of this learning is a direct consequence and outcome of the quality of executioners (teachers) and education system as overall quality of education are major challenges before the country. This study tries to assess “ Whether the quality of educational environment in private schools is as per the derived principles from NCF 2005 and RTE 2009?” School infrastructural conditions are the major ingredient of the quality of educational environment. School infrastructural facilities provide the fertile ground for the interaction process between the teacher and the students. Every school needs attractive environment and adequate infrastructural facilities to create a conductive academic atmosphere. An ideal school, according to Tagore, should be a self-Governing Institution, has a dairy farm, post office, hospital and workshops. There should be a well-equipped library, etc. Today in the world of ICT, the schools should be fully equipped with computers and other multimedia equipment’s to make the students competent at the global level.Learning can occur anywhere, but the positive learning outcomes generally sought by educational systems happen in quality learning environments. Learning environments are made up of physical, psychosocial and service delivery elements. The School having good quality infrastructure facility is more likely to produce good result and would attract more students. The quality of the environment makes a strong impact on performance of the students who come to study in the school, so along with building infrastructure and psychological infrastructure i.e. teachers and other staff and different amenities contributes equally for the better academic environment and academic achievements.The Study was confined to the students of class 6 th only and was limited to the private schools of South East Delhi.
Sanjeev Ranjan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Role of Information Systems in Urban Local Self Government
2012Co-Authors: Sanjeev RanjanAbstract:Local Self Government is the people elected Institution which is created for performing the basic functions of local area. Local self government generally provides basic services like roads, sanitation, streetlight, education, health etc. Therefore, a sound and systematic administrative structure has to be built up by the local self-Governing Institution. Now, the time has changed and the physical process of performing local government functions has been replaced by the information system. Local government uses information and communication technology for the smooth and efficient performance of its public functions in the fastest way. Information system directly links the public with the local government and helps the public to know the plan and policies of the local government and their methods of working, so information system plays an important role in this area. In this paper an attempt has been made to study role of information
F. Andrew Hanssen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How Tyranny Paved the Way to Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece
The Journal of Law and Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew HanssenAbstract:AbstractConsiderable scholarly work has examined the transition to democracy. In this paper, we investigate a path to democracy that is very different from that typically described. During the Archaic period (800–500 BCE), many Greek poleis (city-states) replaced aristocracies with a more narrow Governing Institution—an autocrat known as the tyrant. Yet as classical scholars have noted, many of the poleis where tyrants reigned in the Archaic period became among the broadest democracies in the subsequent Classical period (500–323 BCE). We analyze a data set of ancient Greek political regime types and review the history of the best-known Archaic period tyrants in order to explore why a transitory narrowing of power—Greek tyranny was a transitory Institution—can set the stage for democratization. We briefly consider other historical and modern examples. Our paper shows why an understanding of progress toward democracy requires recognizing the potential importance of nonmonotonic transition paths.
