Chris Maser

Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment

A Systemic Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Increasingly, social-environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. Facing complex interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, policy makers and managers need a systemic approach to decision making. Replacing the dysfunctional, symptomatic thinking that has plunged the world into environmental crises, the new paradigm of systemic decision making fosters social-environmental sustainability. Based on the author's more than 45 years of research and international experience, it guides readers to work with, rather than within, theoretical and methodological frameworks to achieve multidimensional and multilayered policy decisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781466552166
• ISBN-10: 1466552166
• Artikelnr.: 35425206

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.