Incorporating Value Trade-offs into Community-Based Environmental Risk Decisions

摘要: Although much attention has been given to the role of community stakeholders in developing environmental risk-management policies, most local and national initiatives are better known for their failings than successes. One reason this continuing difficulty, we contend, is a reluctance address many difficult value trade-offs that necessarily arise course creating evaluating alternative options. In paper discuss six reasons why such and, each, present helpful techniques from decision sciences along with case study examples successful applications.