Decision Making for the Environment

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Improving Environmental Decision Processes; 5 3 Institutions for Environmental Governance; 6 4 The Environment in Business Decision Making; 7 5 Environmentally Significant Individual Behavior; 8 6 Decision-Relevant Science for Evidence-Based Environmental Policy; 9 References; 10 Appendix A When Do Environmental Decision Makers Use Social Science?--Rebecca J. Romsdahl; 11 Appendix B Improving Environmental Decision Processes--Robin Gregory and Timothy McDaniels; 12 Appendix C Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field--Andrew J. Hoffman; 13 Appendix D Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making: Research Priorities--William Ascher; 14 Appendix E Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making--Cary Coglianese and Lori D. Snyder Bennear; 15 Appendix F Panel Members, Staff, and Contributors