Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

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

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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.

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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

Biographies of Contributing Authors
Index