Environmental Decision-Making
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This book focuses on the interaction of environmental engineers and scientists with key stakeholders - government, industry, the public and community groups - and on the interface between the technical inputs to environmental decision-making and the socio-political context in which decisions are made. Effective professional scientists and engineers need to understand this context - the socially-derived factors which influence the fate of their input to decision-making - as well as the social and values-based components of their professional practice that in turn influence its interpretation. Each chapter evaluates a stage in the process of decision-making and there are also chapters which explore conceptual themes, including 'world views', public participation, risk, professional responsibility and politics.
Author: Ronnie Harding
Format: Paperback, 382 pages
Published: 1998, Federation Press, Australia
Genre: Technology: General & Reference
Description
This book focuses on the interaction of environmental engineers and scientists with key stakeholders - government, industry, the public and community groups - and on the interface between the technical inputs to environmental decision-making and the socio-political context in which decisions are made. Effective professional scientists and engineers need to understand this context - the socially-derived factors which influence the fate of their input to decision-making - as well as the social and values-based components of their professional practice that in turn influence its interpretation. Each chapter evaluates a stage in the process of decision-making and there are also chapters which explore conceptual themes, including 'world views', public participation, risk, professional responsibility and politics.
Environmental Decision-Making