Environmental Alternatives and Social Goals

The main environmental decisions we have to make are social as well as scientific in nature. Lack of a consensus on environmental goals, insufficient understanding of opportunity costs, and the growth of an adversarial political process, all make informed decisionmaking difficult. These problems wil...

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Published in:The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1979-07, Vol.444 (1), p.102-111
Main Author: Heckert, Richard E.
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Alternative/Alternatives
Assumption of risk
Business structures
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Environment/Environments/ Environmental/ Environmentally
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Environmentalism
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Hydrocarbons
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Political processes
Social goal/Social goals
Sustainable food systems
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