Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment : a Systemic Approach.
Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability, a...
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2012.
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| Series: | Social Environmental Sustainability.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Editor's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 -- The Principles of Biophysical Sustainability; Chapter 2 -- Decision Making and Nature's Rules of Engagement; Chapter 3 -- The Stages of an Environmental Agency; Chapter 4 -- Dissonance within Duplicity: Sustainability Programs at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a Case Study; Chapter 5 -- Breaking the Dysfunctional Cycle of Environmental Agency Decision Making; Chapter 6 -- The Essence of a Responsible Decision Maker. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 7 -- Coping with the Responsibilities and Pressures of Social-Environmental Decision MakingChapter 8 -- Giving Children a Voice in Their Future through Shared Decision Making; Afterword; Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Plants and Animals; Back Cover. | |
| 520 | |a Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability, and social justice for all generations. As such, it demands a systemic point of view. Decision Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach gives readers the tools to replace the dysfunctional, symptomatic decision making that has plunged the world into environmental crises with a system. | ||
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