Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks - Chapter 17 Table of Contents

Volume 2: A Functional Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part III: Studies of Management Functions

Chapter 17
Option Assessment in the Management of Global Environmental Risks

William C. Clark, Josee van Eijndhoven, and Nancy M. Dickson with Gerda Dinkelman, Peter M. Haas, Michael Huber, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Edward A. Parson, Miranda A. Schreurs, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Tóth, and Brian Wynne

17.1	Development and Analysis of Option Assessment
17.1.1	Outline of the Chapter
17.1.2	Option Assessment Defined
17.1.3	Option Assessment in Historical Perspective
17.1.4	Questions about Option Assessment
17.2	Analytic Approach
17.2.1	Good Option Assessments?
17.2.2	Descriptive Classification of Options and Assessments
17.2.3	Analytic Criteria
17.3	Findings: The Option Pool
17.3.1	Dominance: Attention Devoted to Options
17.3.2	Richness: The Variety of Options Assessed
17.3.3	Scale: The Jurisdictional Scope of the Option Pool
17.4	Findings: The Assessment Process
17.4.1	Pluralism: Who Performs Option Assessments?
17.4.2	Breadth: What is the Range of Options Considered?
17.4.3	Locus: What Kind of Outcomes are Assessed?
17.4.4	Mode: How are Options Scored in the Assessment?
17.5	Emergent Patterns and Possible Explanations
17.5.1	Emergent Patterns
17.5.2	Issue Development
17.5.3	The Assessment Process
17.5.4	Boundary Work
17.6	Toward Better Option Assessment
17.6.1	Effectiveness
17.6.2	Adequacy
17.6.3	Value
17.6.4	Legitimacy
17.6.5	Prospects for Improvement
Appendix 17A	Acronyms Notes References Bibliography of Major Response Assessments
Table 17.1	Chronology of major option assessments
Table 17.2	Principal options addressed, 1957-1992
Table 17.3	Criteria for evaluating option assessments and their products
Box 17.1	Options addressed in global environmental risk management: A framework for classification