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Title Wicked environmental problems : managing uncertainty and conflict / by Peter J. Balint [and others]
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)
Series SpringerBriefs in business
SpringerBriefs in business.
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
Summary "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 conflicts over natural resource management and over the prioritization of economic and conservation goals more generally. This new book examines past experience and future directions in the management of wicked environmental problems and describes new strategies for mitigating the conflicts inherent in these seemingly intractable situations. The book: reviews the history of the concept of wicked problems examines the principles and processes that managers have applied explores the practical limitations of various approaches Most important, the book reviews current thinking on the way forward, focusing on the implementation of "learning networks," in which public managers, technical experts, and public stakeholders collaborate in decision-making processes that are analytic, iterative, and deliberative. Case studies of forest management in the Sierra Nevada, restoration of the Florida Everglades, carbon trading in the European Union, and management of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania are used to explain concepts and demonstrate practical applications. Wicked Environmental Problems offers new approaches for managing environmental conflicts and shows how managers could apply these approaches within common, real-world statutory decision-making frameworks. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with managing environmental problems
Analysis Environmental sciences
Life sciences
Applied Ecology
Environmental law
Environmental management
Environment
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Life Sciences, general
milieu
milieubeheer
milieuwetgeving
environmental legislation
milieubeleid
environmental policy
ecologie
ecology
levenswetenschappen
Environmental Sciences (General)
Milieuwetenschappen (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236)
Notes English
Subject Environmental management.
Environmental policy.
Environmental protection.
environmental control.
environmental policy.
environmental protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Environnement.
Climat.
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Form Electronic book
Author Balint, Peter J
LC no. 2011005206
ISBN 9781610910477
1610910478
1597264741
159726475X
9781597264747
9781597264754