What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making

<p>Drawing from qualitative data gathered from environmental management professionals, this paper describes best practices for decision-making in environmental clean-up. Technical experts are knowledgeable about both cultural and technical rationality and employ both, as appropriate, to achieve more robust decisions. Experts use active, passive, and interactive communicative strategies to reduce uncertainties and manage tensions. Deliberation is used to achieve robust decisions. The analysis suggests that organizations can improve acceptability of decisions by authorizing experts to incorporate cultural rationality early in the decision process.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Montana

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Hemphill, Cassandra J.

• best practices
• clean-up
• cultural rationality
• decision-making
• deliberation
• environmental management
• remediation
• technical rationality
• tensions

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/1180

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-2199