Wicked environmental problems : managing uncertainty and conflict /
"Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conf...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
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©2011.
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in business.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. The Challenge of Wicked Problems
- 2. Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Management
- 3. Four Wicked Cases
- 4. The Precautionary Principle
- 5. Adaptive Management
- 6. Participatory Processes
- 7. A Proposed Adaptive, Deliberative Decision Process
- 8. The Sierra Nevada Example: Survey of Stakeholders
- 9. The Sierra Nevada Example: Elicitation and Analysis of Preferences
- 10. Managing Wicked Environmental Problems
- References
- Authors
- Index.
