Structured decision making:a practical guide to environmental management choices

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Gregory Robin; (Robin Scott)
Published: Wiley-Blackwell,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex Hoboken, N.J.
Publication Dates: 2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 299 p.: ill., map ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9781444333411 (hardback)
1444333410 (hardback)
9781444333428 (paper)
1444333429 (paper)
Index Number: X3
CLC: X3
Call Number: X3/S927
Contents: Machine generated contents note: ForewordPreface1. Structured Decision Making as an Approach to Environmental Management2. Conceptual Foundations of Structured Decision Making3. Decision Sketching4. Objectives: Figuring Out What Matters5. Performance Measures...
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Structuring environmental management choices -- Foundations of structured decision making -- Decision sketching -- Understanding objectives -- Identifying performance measures -- Incorporating uncertainty -- Creating alternatives -- Characterizing consequences -- Making trade-offs -- Learning -- Reality check : implementation -- Conclusion.
"This book helps environmental managers frame natural resource management problems as decisions, so that difficult choices can be expressed clearly and in a way that is defensible and fits with common sense"--