Shrubland Management in Tribal Islamic Yemen.
Social Forestry as Development of a Local and Sustainable (Sylvi-)Culture.
An Essay in Practical Philosophy.
M. Herzog. February 1998.
A short photo-report on forestry-development in Yemen
A short guide for offroad tourists
1.1 Description of the Case (pre-knowledge of the system, inventory) & Research Design.
2.0 Science-s. The Western Causal Approach. (Complexity in Tree Physiology)
2.1 Heuristics [esp. Morphology] & 2.2 Systems Analysis and Models
2.5 Specific Principles at the Economical Level
3.2 Management = The Steering of Economic Development
3.3 The Steering of social Development = Politics?
4.1.2 Physiological Factors; Climate & Soils
4.2 Natural Environmental Factors: Vegetation
4.4 Rural Economy and Indigenous Knowledge
4.5 Population and Social Structures: The specific "problems" with tribal settings: Consensus
4.6 Historical and Religious Traditions and Rules: Over 4000 years of (sometimes) professional forestry.
4.7 Governmental Structures and Forest Policy
If you don't want to study all this systematically, from the beginning to the end (or opposite), you might start with (answers on) some of the basic questions that led to this study:
Scientific inventories - what for?
Why does a forestry engineer study people instead of trees?
Because, e.g., there are more people than trees and because
THE HUMAN BEING IS THE DOMINANT ECOLOGICAL FACTOR!!!
How does Science deal with COMPLEXITY?
How does one find out what are the local values and motives - the orientational knowledge? [TOPICS]
What is guiding development & what means
MANAGEMENT
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