Earth systems engineering management: human behavior, technology and sustainability

Michael E. Gorman

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2005, vol. 44, issue 3, 201-213

Abstract: This paper describes a framework for collaboration on environmental thinking and management, including three types of multi-disciplinary trading zones and three types of shared expertise. Getting agreement among multiple stakeholders requires the exercise of moral imagination, which involves:•Perceiving one's own mental model of a system, both as it exists (descriptive) and as one would like it to be (normative).•Comparing different mental models across expertises and stakeholder interests.•Generating and evaluating alternatives that would facilitate a transition from descriptive to normative scenarios.

Keywords: Earth Systems Engineering Management; Environment; Moral imagination; Mental models; Trading zones; Complex systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.01.002

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