TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chambers, Robert.
TI  - Whose reality counts? : putting the first last
SN  - 185339386
U1  - 354.2794 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Intermediate technology publications
KW  - RRA-PRA
KW  - Agriculture
N1  - This book is the outcome of collective effort. It originates in the field experience, innovations, research and writings of many people in NGOs, government organizations and universities; 1. The challenge to change
 a. An overview
 b. Accelerating change
 c. Polarization: overclass and underclass
 d. An evolving consensus
 e. The power and will to act
 f. The challenge to change
2. Normal error
 a. Errors: embedded or embraced ?
 b. Macro-policy
 c. Integrated Rural development programs
 d. Beliefs about food and famine
 e. Post-harvest losses of grain
 f. Animal drawn wheeled toolcarriers
 g. Woodfuel forecasts
 h. People and the environment
 i. The puzzle: why were we wrong ?
 j. The puzzle and the challenge
3. Professional realities
 a. Normal professional status
 b. Things and people
 c. Measurement
 d. Reductionism: simplifying the complex
 e. Economics: culture and cult
 f. The professional prison
4. The transfer of reality
 a. Realities
 b. Top-down: uppers and lowers, North and South
 c. Normal teaching
 d. Normal(succesful) careers
 e. Normal development bureaucracy
ER  -