About Introducing environmental decision making

Many of the decisions we make have implications for our environment, particularly those concerning natural resources and wastes. Taking account of environmental factors in decision making can be both complex and challenging. This unit considers decisions in their broader contexts and advocates a systems approach to environmental decision making. After studying this unit, you should be able to recognise and explain in your own words: some different approaches to decision making some major factors that influence decision making what you understand by environmental decision making and several key concepts that are relevant to it how to identify some environmental issues that are of interest or concern to you and explain why what the authors mean by a system, its boundary and environment that we each have a place in the environmental decision-making process in contexts ranging from individual to international that while each individuals effect may itself be small, it is still a contributing factor to the environmental decision-making process and outcome some of the principles of sustainable development that are relevant to decision making how environmental decision making takes place in the context of sustainable development the significance of values and power relations and sources in decision making some of the evolving discourse of relevance to environmental decision making and sustainable development some of your own perspectives, assumptions and motivations for engaging in environmental decision making. the sequence of events that occurred in UK aviation expansion between 1998 and 2004 the decision-making process that occurred during UK aviation expansion and the role of the UK Aviation White Paper process in decision making the stages of one generic process you may go through in attempting to reach a decision and take action (the T863 environmental decision-making framework) insights and conclusions from the analysis of examples of environmental decision-making, including the case study.