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A Systemic Framework For Environmental Decision-Making

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  • RITA VAN DER VORST

    (Centre for Environmental Technology (ICCET), TH Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, 48 Prince's Gardens, London, SW7 2PE, UK)

  • ANNE GRAFÉ-BUCKENS

    (Centre for Environmental Technology (ICCET), TH Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, 48 Prince's Gardens, London, SW7 2PE, UK)

  • WILLIAM R. SHEATE

    (Centre for Environmental Technology (ICCET), TH Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, 48 Prince's Gardens, London, SW7 2PE, UK)

Abstract

The context of sustainable development poses new challenges for traditional environmental decision-making tools, such as environmental impact assessment, environmental management system and life cycle assessment. Today these tools are expected to provide multi-disciplinary information to aid sustainability decisions, not just to inform decisions about environmental effects. This paper brings together the different perspectives of authors from EIA, EMS and clean technology/LCA to examine critically the separate tools in the context of sustainable development, and their inter-relationships, and identifies a "tool-user's dilemma": whether to use a tool as intended, to adapt it or develop something new. The paper examines the similarities of these key tools and recognises both a paradigm shift and a congruence in the way in which they have developed: from being merely tools, through being techniques to approaches. The paper concludes by suggesting an integrated framework within which the tools can continue to operate effectively, and one that helps resolve the tool-user's dilemma. Clean Technology is seen as providing a useful philosophical understanding for the operation of this outline framework.

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  • Rita Van Der Vorst & Anne Grafé-Buckens & William R. Sheate, 1999. "A Systemic Framework For Environmental Decision-Making," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 1(01), pages 1-26.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:01:y:1999:i:01:n:s146433329900003x
    DOI: 10.1142/S146433329900003X
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    1. Flávio G. Nogueira & André F. P. Lucena & Roberto Nogueira, 2018. "Sustainable Insurance Assessment: Towards an Integrative Model," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 43(2), pages 275-299, April.
    2. Alan Pomering & Lester W. Johnson, 2018. "Building Sustainability into Services Marketing: Expanding Decision-Making from a Mix to a Matrix," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-12, August.
    3. Fredrik Burström von Malmborg, 2002. "Environmental management systems, communicative action and organizational learning," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(5), pages 312-323, September.

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