Wicked Environmental Problems Managing Uncertainty and Conflict /

• Main Authors: Balint, Peter J. (Author), Stewart, Ronald E. (Author), Desai, Anand (Author), Walters, Lawrence C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Life sciences.; Applied ecology.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental management.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Applied Ecology.; Life Sciences, general.

"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 conf...

Table of 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.