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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maser, Chris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Social Environmental Sustainability.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.