Decision Making for the Environment:

Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities

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Publication Year:2005

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Garry D. Brewer and Paul C. Stern, Editors, Panel on Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, National Research Council
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With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-10	(skim)
1 Introduction	11-22	(skim)
2 Improving Environmental Decision Processes	23-40	(skim)
3 Institutions for Environmental Governance	41-51	(skim)
4 The Environment in Business Decision Making	52-68	(skim)
5 Environmentally Significant Individual Behavior	69-84	(skim)
6 Decision-Relevant Science for Evidence-Based Environmental Policy	85-111	(skim)
References	112-138	(skim)
Appendix A When Do Environmental Decision Makers Use Social Science?--Rebecca J. Romsdahl	139-174	(skim)
Appendix B Improving Environmental Decision Processes--Robin Gregory and Timothy McDaniels	175-199	(skim)
Appendix C Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field--Andrew J. Hoffman	200-229	(skim)
Appendix D Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making: Research Priorities--William Ascher	230-245	(skim)
Appendix E Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making--Cary Coglianese and Lori D. Snyder Bennear	246-273	(skim)
Appendix F Panel Members, Staff, and Contributors	274-282	(skim)

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With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.

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