
Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ- mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance...

1. Overview.- 2. Identifying Environmental Values.- 3. Tools to Characterize the Environmental Setting.- 4. Tools for Understanding the Socioeconomic and Political Settings for Environmental Decision Making.- 5. Characterizing the Regulatory and Judicial Setting.- 6. Integration...

Environmental decision making is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that brings together concepts from environmental science and management, risk analysis, and decision theory. This book identifies and evaluates a range of practical tools, from software to economics to...