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- Unpacks and explains the characteristics of valid decision making, especially in environmental health and safety
- Shows how organizations and leaders can employ ethical principles and transparency to overcome public skepticism
- Demonstrates multi-criteria decision support tools designed to guide the most complex and uncertain decisions
Part of the book series: Risk, Systems and Decisions (RSD)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Unpacking the Decision Making Process
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Front Matter
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Formalized Decision Support for Safety, Security, Environment and Health
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the challenges that confront leaders in government and industry when making decisions in the areas of environmental health and safety. Today, decision making demands transparency, robustness, and resiliency. However thoughtfully they are devised, decisions made by governments and enterprises can often trigger immediate, passionate public response.
Expertise Under Scrutiny shows how leaders can establish organizational decision making processes that yield valid, workable choices even in fast-changing and uncertain conditions.
The first part of the book examines the organizational decision making process, describing the often-contentious environment in which important environmental health and safety decisions are made, and received. The authors review the roles of actors and experts in the decision making process. The book goes on to address such topics as:
· The roles of actors and experts in the decision making process
· Ethics and analytics as drivers of good decisions
· Why managing problems in safety, security, environment, and health
Part II offers an outline for adopting a formal decision support structure, including the use of decision support tools. It includes a chapter devoted to ELECTRE (ELimination and Choice Expressing Reality), a multi-criteria decision analysis system.
The book concludes with an insightful appraisal and analysis of the expertise, structure and resources needed for navigating well-supported, risk-informed decisions in our 21st Century world.
Expertise Under Scrutiny benefits a broad audience of students, academics, researchers, and working professionals in management and related disciplines, especially in the field of environmental health and safety.
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR ESPACE, Paris, France
Myriam Merad
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US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, USA
Benjamin D. Trump
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expertise Under Scrutiny
Book Subtitle: 21st Century Decision Making for Environmental Health and Safety
Authors: Myriam Merad, Benjamin D. Trump
Series Title: Risk, Systems and Decisions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20532-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20530-0Published: 30 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20532-4Published: 17 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2626-6717
Series E-ISSN: 2626-6725
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 168
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Environmental Health, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology