This book is unique in identifying and presenting tools to environmental decision-makers to help them improve the quality and clarity of their work. These tools range from software to policy approaches, and from environmental databases to focus groups. Equally of value to environmental managers, and students in environmental risk, policy, economics and law.
Environmental decision making is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that brings together concepts from environmental science and management, risk analysis, and decision theory. This book identifies and evaluates a range of practical tools, from software to economics to policy, that can be used to improve the process of decision making. It will be welcomed by environmental managers, government decision makers and their staffs, and students in environmenal policy, economics, and law.
Virginia H. Dale