Stakeholders and Scientists: Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441988122 ISBN 13: 9781441988126

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

Nation and the World must move forward with development of a range of energy sources and savings, all with attendant environmental problems.  Solving these problems, and those remaining from past energy-related activities, will require iteration, inclusion, and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including U.S., State and local governmental agencies, Tribal Nations, scientists, environmentalists, public policy makers, and the general public.

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From the Back Cover

Science and Stakeholders provides a conceptual framework for stakeholder involvement, followed by case studies to explore how to integrate and collaborate among diverse stakeholders and communities to solve environmental and energy-related problems. Stakeholder participation should result in more transparent and acceptable solutions that protect both human and ecological health. Many of the chapters are about place-based environmental management, but all of the chapters deal with how stakeholders have improved (or failed to improve) decision-making processes. The final chapters discuss the role of communication and the media, and a synthesis of stakeholder participation. Although not directly about energy itself, one chapter discusses a range of energy sources and how stakeholders can interact, and each chapter describes in detail the environmental or energy-related issue being discussed. This is the first book to examine how science and stakeholders interact in an open and transparent manner to solve otherwise difficult and contentious issues related to energy and the environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441988122
• ISBN 13: 9781441988126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 475
• Editor: Burger Joanna