Decision making in the context of environmental risks
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Decision making: Social and Creative Dimensions. ed. / Carl Martin Allwood; Marcus Selart. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. p. 89-111.
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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 -