Increasingly environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere the litho-hydrosphere and the biosphere the game is at once a measure of complexity uncertainty interdisciplinary acuity social-environmental sustainability and social justice for all generations. As such it demands a systemic point of view. Decision Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach gives readers the tools to replace the dysfunctional symptomatic decision making that has plunged the world into environmental crises with a systemic approach that fosters social-environmental sustainability. A New Paradigm for Environmental Decision Making Based on the authorâs more than 45 years of research and broad international experience this book guides policy makers and managers to work withârather than withinâtheoretical and methodological frameworks to achieve multidimensional and multilayered policy decisions. It discusses systemic thinking as a rational viable alternative to competitive materialistic and symptomatic decision making. Insights Approaches and Examples for Leadership Organized into three parts the book begins by describing the inviolable biophysical principles that define the limitations of human choices. The second part examines in depth why the conventional command-and-control form of decision making tends to become dysfunctional and fails. It also explains how to break the cycle of such behavior. A case study by Jessica K. La Porte explores the challenges of creating a program of environmentally sustainable decision making. The third part of the book explores what it takes to be a psychologically mature decision maker. A Peaceful Path toward Social-Environmental Sustainability for All Generations Proposing new ways of thinking and problem solving this book provides readers with the ideas language approaches and examples to move toward genuine social-environmental sustainability. It offers counsel on how to be a psychologically mature trustee of planet Earth and leave a more viable legacy for future generations. . Language: English