Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment
Crc Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4665-5216-6 (ISBN)
A New Paradigm for Environmental Decision Making
Based on the author’s more than 45 years of research and broad, international experience, this book guides policy makers and managers to work with—rather than within—theoretical and methodological frameworks to achieve multidimensional and multilayered policy decisions. It discusses systemic thinking as a rational, viable alternative to competitive, materialistic, and symptomatic decision making.
Insights, Approaches, and Examples for Leadership
Organized into three parts, the book begins by describing the inviolable biophysical principles that define the limitations of human choices. The second part examines in depth why the conventional command-and-control form of decision making tends to become dysfunctional and fails. It also explains how to break the cycle of such behavior. A case study by Jessica K. La Porte explores the challenges of creating a program of environmentally sustainable decision making. The third part of the book explores what it takes to be a psychologically mature decision maker.
A Peaceful Path toward Social-Environmental Sustainability for All Generations
Proposing new ways of thinking and problem solving, this book provides readers with the ideas, language, approaches, and examples to move toward genuine social-environmental sustainability. It offers counsel on how to be a psychologically mature trustee of planet Earth and leave a more viable legacy for future generations.
Chris Maser was trained in zoology and ecology and worked for 25 years as a research scientist in agricultural, coastal, desert, forest, valley grassland, shrub steppe, and subarctic settings in various parts of the world before realizing that science is not designed to answer the vast majority of questions society is asking it to address. Maser gave up active scientific research in 1987 and has since worked to unify scientific knowledge with social values in helping to create sustainable communities and landscapes, part of which entails his facilitating the resolution of social-environmental conflicts. He has contributed to more than 286 publications, including 34 books, mostly dealing with some aspect of social-environmental sustainability. Although he has worked and lectured in Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Slovakia, and Switzerland, he calls Corvallis, Oregon home.
Nature’s Urgent Message to the World’s Decision Makers: The Principles of Biophysical Sustainability. Decision Making and Nature’s Rules of Engagement. When the Decision Making Becomes Self-Serving: The Stages of an Environmental Agency. Dissonance within Duplicity: Sustainability Programs at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a Case Study. Breaking the Dysfunctional Cycle of Environmental Agency Decision Making. What Makes a Psychologically Mature Decision Maker? The Essence of a Responsible Decision Maker. Coping with the Responsibilities and Pressures of Social-Environmental Decision Making. Giving Children a Voice in Their Future through Shared Decision Making. Afterword. Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Plants and Animals. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.8.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Environmental Sustainability |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bosa Roca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4665-5216-6 / 1466552166 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4665-5216-6 / 9781466552166 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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