Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to environmental decision making / Richard A. Chechile -- Psychological factors in environmental decision making : social dilemmas / Walter C. Swap -- Ecosystem perspectives in environmental decision making / Stephen H. Levine -- Probability, utility, and decision trees in environmental decision analysis / Richard A. Chechile -- Factoring risk into environmental decision making / Sheldon Krimsky and Dominic Golding -- The economic model / Peter Rogers -- Resource allocation / Richard M. Vogel -- Ethical aspects of environmental decision making / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Public environmental policy decision making : citizen roles / Kent E. Portney -- Regulatory environmental decisions / David M. Gute -- Private-sector environmental decision making / Ann Rappaport and Patricia Dillon. International environmental decision making : challenges and changes for the old order / William R. Moomaw and Judith T. Kildow.