Environmental decision-making -- Environmental attitudes in North America -- Environmental attitudes in Germany: the transfer of scientific information into political action -- Case study: air quality -- Case study: the history and ethics of clean air -- Case study: nuclear power -- Case study: agricultural plenty : more or less farming for the environment? -- Case study: farm animals -- Case study: lowland wetland conservation -- Case study: nature conservation : a Scottish memoir -- Case study: research -- Case study: economics : the challenge of integrated pollution control -- Case study: industry -- Case study: the government sector -- Environmental concern.
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This book is an account of the factors that have to be weighed in making decisions about the air we breathe, about energy sources, land use, animal welfare, commerical profit and so on. It will be of interest to managers, historians, sociologists, but above all for environmental scientists forced to make decisions on imperfect or incomplete evidence.