By Anja K. Possekel
In 1980 my mom and dad took me to St Lucia for the spring vacation trips. those vaca tions had - within the feel of the butterfly impact - massive impact on my additional curriculum. during time I performed many different trips to the Caribbean. My colleagues even communicate of an advancing "Caribbeanisation". This booklet is the fabricated from lots of people who've supported and observed me in the course of all this time. so much of my visits within the Caribbean have been made attainable by way of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). It was once of significant virtue to my perception into Carib bean concerns that i used to be in a position to perform the DFG-financed examine seasoned ject "Complex source mangement on small Caribbean islands" for 5 years. the ultimate part of my dissertation approximately Montserrat used to be additionally financially supported, this time by way of the neighborhood money of the collage of Hamburg. in the scope of the DFG venture, I stayed on Montserrat for a few The island interested me from my first come across. this is often specially months.
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1993; Geipel 1992; Rubin et al. 1987). 2) depicts the differentiation between resources and hazards which is a result of the interaction between humans and their environment. e. natural processes can within this spectrum be evaluated as resources. The hatched lines represent the so-called damage threshold, the point where a resource becomes a hazard or, to put it in other words, a negative resource. Smith himself describes his model with the following words: "As long as the variation of the environmental elements remains fairly close to the expected performance, insignificant damage occurs and the element will be perceived as beneficial.
O'Riordan (I971) describes resource management as follows: " ... a process of decision-making whereby resources are allocated over space and time according to the needs, aspirations, and desires of man within the framework of his technological inventiveness, his political and social institutions, and his legal and administrative arrangements. Resource management should be visualized as a conscious process of decision involving judgement, preference and commitment ... " (O'Riordan 1971, p. ). The objective of resource management therefore has to be the search for suitable resources and the management of their utilisation and distribution.
However, this understanding is facing growing criticism since experience has shown that especially decisions in planning are permanently subject to uncertainty. A further possibility to define uncertainty refers to its sources. This theory differentiates three types of uncertainty. First, uncertainty conditioned by the environment (environmental uncertainty) and, second, uncertainty having its source in the evaluation or assessment (value uncertainty) and, third, uncertainty caused in the context of the coordinating processes (related choice).
