TY - BOOK ID - 22887514 TI - Tools to aid environmental decision making AU - Dale, Virginia H AU - English, Mary R PY - 1998 SN - 0387985557 0387985565 1461214181 PB - New York Berlin Barcelona Springer DB - UniCat KW - Environmental Management. KW - Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. KW - Environmental policy KW - Problem solving KW - Politique de l'environnement KW - Résolution de problème KW - Decision making KW - Methodology. KW - Prise de décision KW - Méthodologie KW - Methodology KW - Environmental policy - Decision making - Methodolgy. KW - Problem solving - Methodology. KW - Méthodologie. KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Psychology KW - Executive functions (Neuropsychology) KW - Decision making&delete& KW - Government policy KW - Environmental management. KW - Environmental economics. KW - Operations research. KW - Decision making. KW - Environmental law. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Nature conservation. KW - Environmental Economics. KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory. KW - Nature Conservation. KW - Conservation of nature KW - Nature KW - Nature protection KW - Protection of nature KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Applied ecology KW - Conservation biology KW - Endangered ecosystems KW - Natural areas KW - Environment law KW - Law KW - Sustainable development KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory KW - Economics KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Conservation KW - Law and legislation KW - Environmental aspects KW - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22887514 AB - Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ­ mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance between deeply held feelings and stark confrontations among opposing views. This volume describes tools that should make the decision maker's lot a bit more tolerable. The authors would be the last to suggest that these decision-aiding tools will somehow bring a benign order to issues that reach to people's fundamental values. What they can help do is to keep the debate focused on the important issues, to serve up useful options, and to narrow the range of disagreement. Even this is a challenging assignment. Still, why bother? The chief reason is that the locus of environmental decision making has, in the past decade or so, shifted from the national to the subnationallevel (a convenient, if colorless, term to denote the hurly­ burly of environmental controversy outside the Washington Beltway). For example, New England has taken a regional stand on tropospheric ozone control, and California requires automotive pollution controls that some other jurisdictions have partially adopted. This shift is a profound but not unexpected result of the way environmental policy has evolved since the modern environmental movement began around the late 1960s. Back then, the pendulum was swinging the other way. ER -