The Rapid Appraisal of Physical Properties Affecting Land Degradation and the Issues of a Soil Scientist in Environment and Natural Resources Research

Publication year: 
1992

In October 1992 Piers Blaikie, David Preston and Michael Stocking organised a workshop on natural resources management in the Third World for Nordic researchers. The contributions of Michael Stocking are given in a few short pages. He feels RRA and PRA have much to offer natural scientists, saying: doing natural resources surveys rapidly may mean doing them better; measurement in science is not the objective, unbiased operation some like to believe it to be; there are lots of rapid, simple measurements which can be made. The second section is a wish-list for natural resources research, posing ten critical questions about present research and projects. The author makes one stop and think.

Interest groups: 
These brief articles are of interest to researchers and fieldworkers, to make them think about what and how they are going to research.
Conference: 
Environment Users Scholars: Exploring Interfaces
Conference Location: 
Stockholm

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Shelfmark in IDS Resource Centre
D : Soil and water conservation 677
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