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Tools to aid environmental decision making
1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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.
Overview / Mary R. English ... [et al.] -- Identifying environmental values / Robin Gregory -- Tools to characterize the environmental setting / Virginia H. Dale and Robert V. O'Neill -- Tools for understanding the socioeconomic and political settings for environmental decision making / William R. Freudenburg -- Characterizing the regulatory and judicial setting / Mary L. Lyndon -- Integration of geographic information / Jeffrey P. Osleeb and Sami Kahn -- Forecasting for environmental decision making / J. Scott Armstrong -- J. Scott Armstrong -- Assessment, refinement, and narrowing of options / Miley W. Merkhofer -- Post-Decision assessment / Gilbert Bergquist and Constance Bergquist -- Next teps for tools to aid environmental decision making / Mary R. English and Virginia H. Dale.
Virginia H. Dale, Mary R. English, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.