Structured Decision Making – A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices

Robin Gregory, Lee Failing, Michael Harstone, Graham Long, Tim McDaniels (Autoren)

Software / Digital Media

312 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4443-9855-7 (ISBN)

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This book is about the creative and messy process of making environmental management decisions. The approach we describe is called Structured Decision Making , a distinctly pragmatic label given to ways for helping individuals and groups think through tough multidimensional choices characterized by uncertain science, diverse stakeholders, and difficult tradeoffs. This is the everyday reality of environmental management, yet many important decisions currently are made on an ad hoc basis that lacks a solid value-based foundation, ignores key information, and results in selection of an inferior alternative. Making progress -- in a way that is rigorous, inclusive, defensible and transparent -- requires combining analytical methods drawn from the decision sciences and applied ecology with deliberative insights from cognitive psychology, facilitation and negotiation. The authors review key methods and discuss case-study examples based in our experiences in communities, boardrooms, and stakeholder meetings. The goal of this book is to lay out a compelling guide that will change how you think about making environmental decisions. Visit www.wiley.com/go/gregory/sdm to access the figures and tables from the book.

Robin Gregory , Senior Researcher, Decision Research Lee Failing , Principal, Compass Resource Management Michael Harstone , Principal, Compass Resource Management Graham Long , Principal, Compass Resource Management Tim McDaniels , University of British Columbia Dan Ohlson , Principal, Compass Resource Management

Foreword Foreword vii Preface ix 1 Structuring Environmental Management Choices 1 2 Foundations of Structured Decision Making 21 3 Decision Sketching 47 4 Understanding Objectives 69 5 Identifying Performance Measures 93 6 Incorporating Uncertainty 122 7 Creating Alternatives 150 8 Characterizing Consequences 173 9 Making Trade-Offs 208 10 Learning 239 11 Reality Check: Implementation 262 12 Conclusion 282 Index 289

Verlagsort	Chicester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 250 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-4443-9855-5 / 1444398555
ISBN-13	978-1-4443-9855-7 / 9781444398557
Zustand	Neuware