Title: Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making Author: Dale, Mary R., Virginia H.; English ISBN: 0387985557 / 9780387985558 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 357 Publisher: Springer Verlag Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Description
Contents
Environmental decisions are made every day in manufacturing plants, city council meetings, and corporate board rooms. This book is unique in identifying and presenting tools to environmental decision-makers to help them improve the quality and clarity of this vital process. The tools described in this book range from software to policy approaches, and from environmental databases to focus groups. Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making will be of value to decision makers and their staffs, environmental managers, and students in environmental risk, policy, economics and law.
Foreword by Robert
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 : Overview Chapter 2 : Identifying Environmental Values Chapter 3 : Tools to Characterize the Environmental Setting Chapter 4 : Tools for Understanding the Socioeconomic and Political Settings for Environmental Decision Making Chapter 5 : Characterizing the Regulatory, and Judicial Setting Chapter 6 : Integration of Geographic Information Chapter 7 : Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making Chapter 8 : Assessment, Refinement, and Narrowing of Options Chapter 9 : Post- Decision Assessment Chapter 10 : Next Steps for Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making