TY - CHAP

T1 - Decision making in the context of environmental risks

AU - Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger

AU - Böhm, Gisela

PY - 2001/1/1

Y1 - 2001/1/1

N2 - Environmental problems, such as pollution or the destruction of forests, are among the most serious challenges of today’s society. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been given to global phenomena, such as ozone layer depletion and climate change (e.g., Rayner and Malone, 1998a). These phenomena constitute global environmental risks, and it is one of the major problems for scientists as well as for policy makers how to assess, communicate, and manage these risks. Many of these environmental problems are anthropogenic, that is, they originate from human activities. Hence, the ultimate causes of global risks can be found in decision making processes -- on individual, organisational, and societal levels -- that lead to environmentally relevant behavior. Environmental problems arise from the fact that many individual choices are detrimental for the environment in the long run, such as car driving or overfishing, but are hard to change.

AB - Environmental problems, such as pollution or the destruction of forests, are among the most serious challenges of today’s society. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been given to global phenomena, such as ozone layer depletion and climate change (e.g., Rayner and Malone, 1998a). These phenomena constitute global environmental risks, and it is one of the major problems for scientists as well as for policy makers how to assess, communicate, and manage these risks. Many of these environmental problems are anthropogenic, that is, they originate from human activities. Hence, the ultimate causes of global risks can be found in decision making processes -- on individual, organisational, and societal levels -- that lead to environmentally relevant behavior. Environmental problems arise from the fact that many individual choices are detrimental for the environment in the long run, such as car driving or overfishing, but are hard to change.

KW - Business psychology

KW - Environmental Risk

KW - Mental Model

KW - Social Dilemma

KW - Environmental Decision

KW - Ozone Layer Depletion

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/08e1ff50-f2aa-39f1-b07e-d99e4df076d8/

U2 - 10.1007/978-94-015-9827-9_5

DO - 10.1007/978-94-015-9827-9_5

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0792368625

SN - 0792368622

SN - 978-9048156719

SN - 9048156718

SP - 89

EP - 111

BT - Decision making

A2 - Allwood, Carl Martin

A2 - Selart, Marcus

PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers

CY - Dordrecht [u.a.]

ER -