Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making
. Ed(S): Dale, Virginia H.; English, Mary R.
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Paperback. Identifies and presents tools to environmental decision-makers to help them improve the quality and clarity of their work that range from software to policy approaches, and from environmental databases to focus groups. This title is suitable for environmental managers, and students in environmental risk, policy, economics and law. Editor(s): Dale, Virginia H.; English, Mary R. Num Pages: 342 pages, 22 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GPQ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance between deeply held feelings and stark confrontations among opposing views. This volume describes tools that should make the decision maker's lot a bit more tolerable. The authors would be the last to suggest that these decision-aiding tools will somehow bring a benign order to issues that reach to people's fundamental values. What they can help do is to keep the debate focused ... Read more
Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance between deeply held feelings and stark confrontations among opposing views. This volume describes tools that should make the decision maker's lot a bit more tolerable. The authors would be the last to suggest that these decision-aiding tools will somehow bring a benign order to issues that reach to people's fundamental values. What they can help do is to keep the debate focused ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387985565
SKU
V9780387985565
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