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Wicked Environmental Problems

Name: Wicked Environmental Problems
Brand: ISLAND PRESS
SKU: 9781597264754
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ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781597264754

Managing Uncertainty and Conflict

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By Peter J. Balint, Ronald E. Stewart, Anand Desai, Lawrence C. Walters
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 266

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""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.

Preface

Chapter 1. The Challenge of Wicked Problems
Chapter 2. Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Management
Chapter 3. Four Wicked Cases
Chapter 4. The Precautionary Principle
Chapter 5. Adaptive Managment
Chapter 6. Participatory Processes
Chapter 7. A Proposed Adaptive, Deliberative Decision Process
Chapter 8. The Sierra Nevada Example: Survey of Stakeholders
Chapter 9. The Sierra Nevada Example: Elicitation and Analysis of Preferences
Chapter 10. Managing Wicked Environmental Problems

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"This book has much to recommend it. The review of the wicked problems literature is very useful, especially for planning theory courses. The case studies nicely illustrate, especially when the outcomes are risky and the science is uncertain. Policy analysts and modelers will find the innovative preference analysis of special interest."

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