Environmental Decision-Making and Lake Management

Gough, Janet; Ward, J. Clifton

doi:10.1006/jema.1996.0063

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“…Perhaps, in the future, some theories might be converted into more objective, truly empirical concepts that are observable, measurable and scientifically acceptable and testable (Heyns & Pieterse 1990:78;Van der Ven 1993:134). The tool for achieving this would probably be the risk assessment methodology that is being developed, among other places, in New Zealand and the USA (Gough 1997;Department of Mineral Resources 2012:60).…”

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Karoo fracking and the Christian faith community

Tonder

Tucker

2014

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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One of the challenges for Practical Theology in Africa is to engage with the continent’s concerns and challenges in such a way that the kingdom of God is realised in society and is seen to be relevant to these issues by people who are outside of academia. In our article, which was first presented at the Practical Theology congress in Pretoria in January 2014, the authors seek to demonstrate how this may be accomplished by applying insights to one concern, namely ‘fracking’. The objective is to mobilise the influential Christian faith community in South Africa to begin to exercise prophetic discernment concerning fracking in the Karoo. The fracking debate is a product of the tension between the environmental degradation that its waste products may cause, on the one hand, and, on the other, the greater energy demands of a rapidly increasing world population along with its expectations of an ever-increasing standard of living. Shale gas fracking in the Karoo region of South Africa promises to make vast reserves of oil and gas available to help meet a significant percentage of the country’s energy needs for many years to come, and so thus aid development and contribute to raising the standard of living of many people. Yet the management of the waste products associated with the process is an area of serious environmental concern. The article aims to apprise the South African Christian faith community of the technology and risks involved. Theological guidelines are presented by which fracking’s benefits and dangers can be interrogated so that the community may come to an informed decision as to whether or not to support fracking.

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Karoo fracking and the Christian faith community

Tonder

Tucker

2014

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…Four successful casestudies that were based on applications of the proposed DSS were provided for demonstrating applicability of the developed techniques. Gough and Ward (1996) developed a DSS based on a 'soft' system learning approach, and applied it to a case-study of environmental decision-making under uncertainty. The concept of 'good' decision was carefully analyzed, where two aspects of a good decision were identified.…”

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Barriers to sustainable water-quality management

Huang

Xia

2001

Journal of Environmental Management

137

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“…Determining what is a good, better or best decision is a value judgement (Keeney [1], Gough and Ward [2]). Without taking in mind values judgements, the decision-making process will fail.…”

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“…In reality, the concept of a good decision will involve elements of both criteria and weighting given to them. In the context of environmental decision-making, it may be a long time before the outcomes are known, and therefore the process aspect may be weighed more heavily (Gough and Ward [2]). …”

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Comparative analysis of decision-making methodologies used in environmental planning

Bakopoulou¹,

Polyzos²,

Κungolos³

2007

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 102

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It is the objective of this study to analyze the methodologies used for the evaluation of alternative projects in the environmental planning procedure. There are many methodologies used for evaluation of a project or alternative actions such as financial analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, cost benefit analysis and multicriteria analysis. The main methodologies that are being considered in this study are cost benefit analysis and multicriteria analysis. They are two basic methodologies which facilitate the decision-making procedure especially in cases where many criteria should be taken into account in the decision-making model. The character of data being worked out by each methodology differs. Cost benefit analysis is a monetary based technique and all variables should have a monetary value while multicriteria analysis is a non-monetary technique and it can incorporate qualitative variables. The advantages and disadvantages of each methodology are being discussed in the study in order to find a methodology suitable for evaluating alternative actions under the sustainability concept.

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Environmental Decision-Making and Lake Management

Cited by 45 publications

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Karoo fracking and the Christian faith community

Karoo fracking and the Christian faith community

Barriers to sustainable water-quality management

Comparative analysis of decision-making methodologies used in environmental planning

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