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Author Harding, Ronnie

Title Environmental Decision-Making : Exploring Complexity and Context
Published Leichhardt : Federation Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (417 pages)
Contents Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; List of Acronyms; 1 Environmental Decision-making in a Complex World; 2 Sustainable Development and Sustainability; 3 Values and Value Systems; 4 Institutions; 5 Actors Outside Government; 6 Multiple Knowledges; 7 Public Participation; 8 Tools for Environmental Decision-making; 9 Uncertainty, Risk and the Precautionary Principle; 10 Progressing Environmental Decision-making for Sustainability; Exploring Principal Themes Through Three Case Studies of Environmental Decision-making; Case Study A: Container Deposit Legislation
Case Study B: Gunns Pulp MillCase Study C: Toowoomba Water Recycling; Reference List for Chapters 110; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W-Z
Summary This book explores environmental decision-making processes and contexts, and their effect onsustainability outcomes. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach and engage in themes from political science, law, economics, philosophy, natural sciences, geography, engineering and sociology
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Subject Environmental law -- Australia
Environmental policy -- Decision making
Environmental law
Environmental policy -- Decision making
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Hendriks, Carolyn M
Faruqi, Mehreen
ISBN 9781862877696
1862877696
1282272373
9781282272378