Structured Decision Making : A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices.

By: Gregory, RobinContributor(s): Failing, Lee | Harstone, Michael | Long, Graham | McDaniels, Tim | Ohlson, DanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444398526Subject(s): Environmental management -- Case studies | Environmental management -- Decision makingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Structured Decision Making : A Practical Guide to Environmental Management ChoicesDDC classification: 333.7 LOC classification: GE300 -- .S7834 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Structuring Environmental Management Choices -- 2 Foundations of Structured Decision Making -- 3 Decision Sketching -- 4 Understanding Objectives -- 5 Identifying Performance Measures -- 6 Incorporating Uncertainty -- 7 Creating Alternatives -- 8 Characterizing Consequences -- 9 Making Trade-Offs -- 10 Learning -- 11 Reality Check: Implementation -- 12 Conclusion -- Index.
Summary: This book outlines the creative process of making environmental management decisions using the approach called Structured Decision Making. It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and scientists.  This is 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 their 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.
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Intro -- Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Structuring Environmental Management Choices -- 2 Foundations of Structured Decision Making -- 3 Decision Sketching -- 4 Understanding Objectives -- 5 Identifying Performance Measures -- 6 Incorporating Uncertainty -- 7 Creating Alternatives -- 8 Characterizing Consequences -- 9 Making Trade-Offs -- 10 Learning -- 11 Reality Check: Implementation -- 12 Conclusion -- Index.

This book outlines the creative process of making environmental management decisions using the approach called Structured Decision Making. It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and scientists.  This is 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 their 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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