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Integrating perspectives in environmental management

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Environmental perception plays a major role in environmental decision-making. Three distinct perspective types can be identified—personal, technical, and organizational—which determine the response to environment management problems. Integrating perspectives using multiple perspective analysis can be of use in environmental management. Using this technique, two environmental management problems have been analyzed and differing perspectives have been integrated. This integration resembles the task of conceptualizing a three-dimensional object from a series of one-dimensional descriptions and two-dimensional drawings.

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Bowonder, B. Integrating perspectives in environmental management. Environmental Management 11, 305–315 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01867158

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