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Welcome to another edition of GDRC Mosaic!
This month, GDRC Mosaic is being sent to
more than 2,000 subscribers in 130 countries worldwide.
THIS MONTH'S SPOTLIGHT: Decision-Making Pyramid,
from GDRC's Programme on Environmental Decision-Making.
The decision-making pyramid shows that 'simple'
decisions and choices taken by individuals on a
daily basis cumulatively have a global impact,
and vice versa, we need to break down global
decisions into smaller frequent sustainability
choices at the individual level.
A simple example of this process is to breakdown
a 'global' environmental problem such as
desertification into individual causes
(deforestation, water extraction, agricultural
practices) and then further to choices and
decisions that that influences these causes
(lifestyle choices, consumption patterns,
technology development etc.), ending up with
one option that can be taken up at the local
and individual level, for example, choice of
the foods we eat.
GDRC has been working on these and related issues.
Resources on this topic are available at:
http://www.gdrc.org/decision/pyramid.html
As with all sections of GDRC, contributions, comments
and suggestions are always welcome from users and
subscribers! Please contact GDRC's Coordinator at -
hsrinivas@gdrc.org
FOCUS ON GDRC: LEARNING LESSONS
Formating Information (INFORMAT)
Information has to be 'formatted' properly if it
is to be trusted and used for the purposes it was
intended. The Learning Lab of GDRC calls this
the "INFORMAT" approach. It essentially looks
at the following six components:
- Legitimacy: Delivering appropriate and timely
information that reflects the mandate and
objectives for which it was collected.
- Complementarity: Complementing existing global
and international efforts in knowledge
dissemination, and intrapolating its relevance
at the micro level.
- Subsidiarity: Adopting a decentralized system
of information collation. Ensuring, as a result,
that users understand its use and limitation.
- Transparency: Key for INFORMAT to work is
ensuring that information is available freely
for all purposes and users.
- Continuity: Commiting to ensure currency and
accuracy of information made available, in a
sustained manner.
- Economy: Collating, packaging and disseminating
information that is, to the extent possible, in
scale to the need, use and analyses of the
problems being faced.
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