Structured decision making: a practical guide to environmental management choices

This book is about the creative and messy process of making environmental management decisions. The approach we describe is called Structured Decision Making, 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 our 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. INDICE: Foreword Foreword viiPreface ix1 Structuring Environmental Management Choices 12 Foundations of Structured Decision Making 213 Decision Sketching 474 Understanding Objectives 695 Identifying Performance Measures 936 Incorporating Uncertainty 1227 Creating Alternatives 1508 Characterizing Consequences 1739 Making Trade-Offs 20810 Learning 23911 Reality Check: Implementation 26212 Conclusion 282Index 289

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-9855-7
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés