Tools To Aid Environmental Decision Making

Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1461214181
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making written by Virginia H. Dale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387985558
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making written by Virginia H. Dale and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This te×t identifies and presents 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.

Author : Chad J. McGuire
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439885753
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Decision-Making in Context written by Chad J. McGuire and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of issues at stake when making such decisions. Offering a simple but comprehensive understanding of the critical roles science, economics, and values play in making informed environmental decisions, Environmental Decision-Making in Context: A Toolbox provides that foundation. The author highlights a primary set of intellectual tools from different disciplines and places them into an environmental context through the use of case study examples. The case studies are designed to stimulate the analytical reasoning required to employ environmental decision-making and ultimately, help in establishing a framework for pursuing and solving environmental questions, issues, and problems. They create a framework individuals from various backgrounds can use to both identify and analyze environmental issues in the context of everyday environmental problems. The book strikes a balance between being a tightly bound academic text and a loosely defined set of principles. It takes you beyond the traditional pillars of academic discipline to supply an understanding of the fundamental aspects of what is actually involved in making environmental decisions and building a set of skills for making those decisions.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309095409
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Making for the Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780309312325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability Concepts in Decision-making written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making: Tools and Approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency examines scientific tools and approaches for incorporating sustainability concepts into assessments used to support EPA decision making. Using specific case studies, this report considers the application of analytic and scientific tools, methods, and approaches presented in the 2011 NRC report Sustainability and the U.S. EPA. This report examines both currently available and emerging tools, methods, and approaches to find those most appropriate for assessing and/or evaluating potential economic, social and environmental outcomes within an EPA decision context. Sustainability Concepts in Decision Making also discusses data needs and post-decision evaluation of outcomes on dimensions of sustainability. A broad array of sustainability tools and approaches are suitable for assessing potential environmental, social, and economic outcomes in EPA's decision-making context."--Publisher's description.

Author : Andrew A. Lovett
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420007467
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GIS for Environmental Decision-Making written by Andrew A. Lovett and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental applications have long been a core use of GIS. However, the effectiveness of GIS-based methods depends on the decision-making frameworks and contexts within which they are employed. GIS for Environmental Decision-Making takes an interdisciplinary look at the capacities of GIS to integrate, analyze, and display data on which decisions

Author : Ken Sexton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Environmental Decisions written by Ken Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Environmental Decisions brings together leading scholars and practitioners from business, government, and communities to provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to the new landscape of environmental regulation and agreements. Each chapter describes an important aspect of environmental decision making; identifies key issues, problems, and barriers; and recommends ways to improve both the process and the final result. Throughout, contributors focus on providing tools to make better decisions, and on presenting solutions to real-world problems. This useful work will be a landmark reference and text for scholars and students, as well as legislators, regulators, advocates, and community activists.

Author : Vladimir F. Krapivin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319139789
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science written by Vladimir F. Krapivin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems concerning the dynamics of the nature-society system are considered and the key problems of ensuring the system’s sustainable development are studied. A new approach to the numerical modeling of the nature-society system is proposed and results are provided on modeling the dynamics of the system’s characteristics with regard to scenarios of anthropogenic impacts on biogeochemical cycles, land ecosystems and oceans. The main purpose of this book is to develop a universal guide to information-modeling technologies for assessing the function of environmental subsystems under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions.

Author : William R. Sheate
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814289698
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools, Techniques & Approaches for Sustainability written by William R. Sheate and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume brings together key writings from experts drawn from the first ten years of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), launched in 1999 as a forum for encouraging better linkages between environmental assessment and management tools. The book is structured around four themes that focus on the characteristics of tools that influence their ability to link together effectively: The Nature of Tools; The Nature of Decision-Making and Institutional Context; The Nature of Engagement and The Nature of Sustainability. Edited and introduced by William Sheate, founding and present editor of JEAPM, the book provides an analysis of what makes for successful linking of assessment and management tools, supported by theoretical and practical examples. Key authors include Roland Clift, David Gadenne, Robert Gibson, Neils Faber, Thomas Fischer, David Lawrence, MNns Nilsson, Bronwyn Ridgway, and Frank Vanclay. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: The Evolving Nature of Environmental Assessment and Management: Linking Tools to Help Deliver Sustainability (10,216 KB). Contents: The Evolving Nature of Environmental Assessment and Management: Linking Tools to Help Deliver Sustainability (W R Sheate); The Nature of Tools: Choices for EIA Process Design and Management (D P Lawrence); The Project Cycle and the Role of EIA and EMS (B Ridgway); A Framework for Tool Selection and Use in Integrated Assessment for Sustainable Development (W De Ridder et al.); The Nature of Decision-Making and Institutional Context: A Systemic Framework for Environmental Decision-Making (R Van Der Vorst et al.); Decision Making and Strategic Environmental Assessment (M Nilsson & H Dalkmann); The Nature of Engagement: In It Together: Organizational Learning Through Participation in Environmental Assessment (P Fitzpatrick); Social and Environmental NGOs as Users of Corporate Social Disclosure (L Danastas & D Gadenne); The Nature of Sustainability: Organisational Sustainability: A Case for Formulating a Tailor-Made Definition (D J Kiewiet & J F J Vos); Beyond the Pillars: Sustainability Assessment as a Framework for Effective Integration of Social, Economic and Ecological Considerations in Significant Decision-Making (R B Gibson); and other papers. Readership: Natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, businesses and consultants interested in sustainability."

Author : Davide Geneletti
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783089539
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making written by Davide Geneletti and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicriteria analysis, or MCA, has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action by integrating factual information with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement. Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making provides an introduction to the key concepts of MCA and includes a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures. A compact reference that can be used by researchers, practitioners and planners/decision makers, Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a broad range of curricula.