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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Colección: | Social Environmental Sustainability.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.