Decision Making for the Environment

Garry D. Brewer and Paul C. Stern, Editors, Panel on Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Improving Environmental Decision Processes; 5 3 Institutions for Environmental Governance; 6 4 The Environment in Business Decision Making; 7 5 Environmentally Significant Individual Behavior; 8 6 Decision-Relevant Science for Evidence-Based Environmental Policy; 9 References; 10 Appendix A When Do Environmental Decision Makers Use Social Science?--Rebecca J. Romsdahl; 11 Appendix B Improving Environmental Decision Processes--Robin Gregory and Timothy McDaniels; 12 Appendix C Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field--Andrew J. Hoffman; 13 Appendix D Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making: Research Priorities--William Ascher; 14 Appendix E Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making--Cary Coglianese and Lori D. Snyder Bennear; 15 Appendix F Panel Members, Staff, and Contributors