GNOMO Vision Statement Poll
Greg Greenwood engineered a fantastic guiding Mission Statement for us, and presented it at the RMBL meeting:
Teams of researchers, covering the range of pertinent disciplines, work together in a finite number of sites representative of the diversity of mountain regions around the world to develop their understanding of the current structure and function as well as the longer-term evolution, of mountain social-ecological systems using protocols that support comparative analysis, at a detail sufficient to support forecasts of likely outcome, given sufficiently defined boundary conditions, and in ways that engage a wide range of actors and contribute significantly to public and private decision-making.
Now we need a short, visionary statement that is easy to communicate and remember, that conveys the change GNOMO wants to make in the world, and creates emotion.
Here’s a poll with the candidates submitted. Please vote for the most effective one, or send us a comment if you have a better idea.
Thanks!
I’m not sure I’d vote for any of these, I think we’d be better off without a vision statement or tagline than with these, sorry. We use the word “observation”, which is rooted in an etymology that is both purely descriptive (“to look at”) and, if we trace the etymology back far enough, also somewhat normative (“to attend to”). A vision statement/tagline could build off that notion of attend – “Attending to Mountains”, as an example – which invites the various descriptive sciences (both biophysical and social), and the more normative elements (here something like “caring for them” or “acting on behalf of them”) of the arts and humanities as well.