This book outlines the creative process of making environmental management decisions using the approach called Structured Decision Making. It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and scientists. This is a distinctly...

Introduction -- Theoretical Foundations: The Organizational Context and High Reliability Theory -- Theoretical Foundations: The Collaborative Context -- Theoretical Foundations: The Decision-Making Context -- Conceptualized Research Model and Conceptual Connections -- Research Approach and...

Group decision making is often associated with better qualitative decisions and outcomes than decisions made by individuals alone. The dynamics of the group decision-making process, as opposed to the consequences of such decisions, have received limited research attention. While there is...