Improving Environmental Interventions by Understanding Information Flows

A Framework for Understanding and Improving Environmental Decision Making

This paper presents a framework for understanding and improving public sector environmental decision making. Within the framework, four interrelated components are discussed: (1) the environmental and cultural context–understanding this context includes understanding what people consider to be environmental problems, the goals and values that they bring to environmental problems and decision pr...

Restoring Environmental Flows by Modifying Dam Operations

The construction of new dams has become one of the most controversial issues in global efforts to alleviate poverty, improve human health, and strengthen regional economies. Unfortunately, this controversy has overshadowed the tremendous opportunity that exists for modifying the operations of existing dams to recover many of the environmental and social benefits of healthy ecosystems that have ...

Improving child survival through environmental and nutritional interventions: the importance of targeting interventions toward the poor.

CONTEXT The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health, and sustainability issues. A critical but underinvestigated question for planning and allocating resources toward the MDGs is how interventions related to one MDG might affect progress toward other goals. OBJECTIVES To estimate the reduction in child mortality as a result of...

The Next Generation of Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Interventions: Improving Outcomes by Improving Interventions

Reaping Strategic Benefit by Understanding Innovational Information Flows in the Organisation

In this paper it is pondered whether the principles of business managerial theories are suitable for understanding defence forces internal production management as well. Defence products can broadly be understood as those acts, introductions and systems, which produce real security or secure feelings to the nation. In this paper, focal point is set to material acquisition coordination processes...