Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices

I have been engaged in scientific analysis to inform environmental decision making for 35 years and have seen/read a number of excellent books on decision analysis, beginning with Howard Raiffa's 1968 text. Gregory et al. is clearly one of the very best. Well-written and comprehensive, this book is one I plan to recommend strongly to students and colleagues.

One of the best practical guides I know!

This is an excellent book and covers the topic of collaborative decisionmaking in a readable, yet comprehensive way. It describes theory and practical methodology for those interested in the collaborative process and gives pertinent examples of how the process works in real life.

I have been working in natural resource management for my entire career and I found Gregory et al. to be truly inspirational. Their book addresses the ultimate challenge of trading off environmental, economic and social interests. Thorough, comprehensive, easy to read and well organized, this book is a delight to read. Many real life examples are presented about how structured decision-making was applied to a wide range of issues in situations ranging from those where there was little data, to those where there was a lot of information. This book challenges the conventional wisdom of approaches to natural resource management in the context of decision-making. Whether you are the scientist or economist who provides data to senior managers, whether you are in the public or private sector, or whether you are a member of a multi-stakeholder group who must make difficult environmental versus economic trade-off recommendations, you will find this book to be most informative. I highly recommend this book.

This is quite a read and is packed with useful information. I sourced the book as part of an assessment to determine whether SDM had applicability for some complex and tough watershed management decisions our community needs to make. Having read the book and heard the author speak, I've no doubt that this is an extremely useful, possibly even essential, decision making tool.

A great book ..finding it very useful for conservation related issues!

I have been working in natural resource management for my entire career and I found Gregory et al. to be truly inspirational. Their book addresses the ultimate challenge of trading off environmental, economic and social interests. Thorough, comprehensive, easy to read and well organized, this book is a delight to read. Many real life examples are presented about how structured decision-making was applied to a wide range of issues in situations ranging from those where there was little data, to those where there was a lot of information. This book challenges the conventional wisdom of approaches to natural resource management in the context of decision-making. Whether you are the scientist or economist who provides data to senior managers, whether you are in the public or private sector, or whether you are a member of a multi-stakeholder group who must make difficult environmental versus economic trade-off recommendations, you will find this book to be most informative. I highly recommend this book.

I would recommend this book.

An excellent and practical framework that provides very relevant guidance to public consultation decisions about complex environmental issues.