Decision making for the environment social and behavioral science research priorities

Recognizing the need to develop more fully the social and behavioral science knowledge base for environmental decision making, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) asked the National Academies to identify a few science priorities areas in which con...

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Otros Autores: Brewer, Garry D. (-), Stern, Paul C., 1944-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press ©2005.
Colección:National Academies ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How We Conducted the Study
  • The Results
  • Improving Environmental Decision Processes
  • The Research Need
  • What Is a Decision Science Approach?
  • Areas of Research
  • Rationale for the Science Priority
  • Institutions for Environmental Governance
  • The Research Need
  • Areas of Research
  • Rationale for the Science Priority
  • The Environment in Business Decision Making
  • The Research Need
  • Areas of Research
  • Rationale for the Science Priority
  • Environmentally Significant Individual Behavior
  • The Research Need
  • Areas of Research
  • Rationale for the Science Priority
  • Decision-Relevant Science for Evidence-Based Environmental Policy
  • Building the Infrastructure
  • Developing Decision-Relevant Indicators
  • Evaluating Environmental Policies
  • Improving Environmental Forecasting
  • Determining Distributional Impacts
  • When Do Environmental Decision Makers Use Social Science? / Rebecca J. Romsdahl
  • Social Science Utilization in Government Decision Making
  • Challenges to Social Science Utilization
  • Studies in Environmental Decision Making
  • Insights from Social Studies of Science
  • Recommendations from the Reviewed Literature
  • Improving Environmental Decision Processes / Robin Gregory, Timothy McDaniels
  • Levels of Environmental Policy Decisions
  • Approaches to Aid Individual Decisions on Environmental Policy Choices
  • Approaches to Aid Group Deliberative Processes on Environmental Policy Choices
  • Approaches to Aid Organizational Decisions on Environmental Policy Choices
  • Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field / Andrew J. Hoffman
  • Corporate Environmentalism as an Empirical Domain
  • Corporate Environmentalism as a Research Domain
  • Corporate Environmentalism as a Management Discipline
  • Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making: Research Priorities / William Ascher
  • Approaches to Enhancing the Accuracy and Reliability of Forecasts for Environmental Decision Making
  • Approaches to Enhancing the Usefulness of Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making
  • Summary of Assessment and Research Priorities
  • Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making / Cary Coglianese, Lori D. Snyder Bennear
  • The Role of Program Evaluation in Environmental Policy
  • Methods of Program Evaluation
  • The Future of Program Evaluation of Environmental Policy
  • Conclusion.