Decision making for a sustainable environment : a systemic approach / / Chris Maser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910800100003321
• Autore: Maser Chris.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-429-09864-2; 1-4665-5217-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Collana: Social-environmental sustainability series
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetti: Sustainable development - Decision making; Environmental policy - Decision making; Environmental protection - Decision making
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Nature's urgent message to the world's decision makers -- section 2. When the decision making becomes self-serving -- section 3. What makes a psychologically mature decision maker?
• Sommario/riassunto: Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability, and social justice for all generations. As such, it demands a systemic point of view. Decision Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach gives readers the tools to replace the dysfunctional, symptomatic decision making that has plunged the world into envir