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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 environmental crises with a systemic approach that fosters social-environmental sustainability.
A New Paradigm for Environmental Decision Making
Based on the author's more than 45 years of research and broad, international experience, this book guides policy makers and managers to work with—rather than within—theoretical and methodological frameworks to achieve multidimensional and multilayered policy decisions. It discusses systemic thinking as a rational, viable alternative to competitive, materialistic, and symptomatic decision making.
Insights, Approaches, and Examples for Leadership
Organized into three parts, the book begins by describing the inviolable biophysical principles that define the limitations of human choices. The second part examines in depth why the conventional command-and-control form of decision making tends to become dysfunctional and fails. It also explains how to break the cycle of such behavior. A case study by Jessica K. La Porte explores the challenges of creating a program of environmentally sustainable decision making. The third part of the book explores what it takes to be a psychologically mature decision maker.
A Peaceful Path toward Social-Environmental Sustainability for All Generations
Contents
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.
