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In efforts to improve people’s standard of living and to prevent serious ecological degradation, government has recently enacted at least 14 different policies that have had, and are likely to have, immense consequences for the Kham Tibetan people’s way of life. Unfortunately, there are often unforeseen, unintended consequences to such widespread and rapid restructuring of society. This paper examines these policies in a holistic fashion, each policy examined independently and in concert with each other; that is, in both a linear and a vertical manner, in order to show how researchers and policy-makers may gain a better grasp about how individual policies, often created in a vacuum, may affect the outcome(s) of other policies. More importantly, we aim to demonstrate how all of these policies, when considered together, may affect the Kham Tibetan pastoralist communities in which they are enacted — sometimes in a positive manner, sometimes in a negative manner.
Looking for stability: Holistic policy analysis in light of rapid development among Kham Tibetan herding groups
In efforts to improve people’s standard of living and to prevent serious ecological degradation, government has recently enacted at least 14 different policies that have had, and are likely to have, immense consequences for the Kham Tibetan people’s way of life. Unfortunately, there are often unforeseen, unintended consequences to such widespread and rapid restructuring of society. This paper examines these policies in a holistic fashion, each policy examined independently and in concert with each other; that is, in both a linear and a vertical manner, in order to show how researchers and policy-makers may gain a better grasp about how individual policies, often created in a vacuum, may affect the outcome(s) of other policies. More importantly, we aim to demonstrate how all of these policies, when considered together, may affect the Kham Tibetan pastoralist communities in which they are enacted — sometimes in a positive manner, sometimes in a negative manner.