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Third Edition
By
John Friend, Sheffield, UK
Allen Hickling, Warwickshire, UK
Included in series
Urban and Regional Planning Series,
Description
Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice
Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making
under uncertainty.
Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways
of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action.
Along he way, decision makers are helped to cope with diverse sources of uncertainty – technical, political, managerial – in a strategic
manner.
In this extended third edition, the authors have added short contributions from 21 users from seven countries. These new contributors
present lessons from their varied experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decision-making and learning in settings
ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.
Audience
Readership (primary): urban and regional planners, strategic managers, project managers (including building professionals), public policy
professionals, business consultants; environmental policy-makers and managers.
Readership (secondary): MBA students; management, planning
and policy researchers.
Contents
Authors' Preface to third Edition: Foreword to Third Edition by Arnold de Jong: Authors' Preface to Second Edition: Authors' Preface to
First Edition: Foreword to First Edition by Raymond Bunker: A Quick Access Guide: 1. Foundations: 2. Working into Problems: 3. Working
towards Decisions: 4. Orientations: 5. Skills in Shaping: 6. Skills in Designing: 7. Skills in Comparing: 8. Skills in Choosing: 9. Practicalities:
10.The Electronic Resource: 11. Extensions in Process Management: 12. Invention, Transformation and Interpretation: 13. Learning from
Others by 21 invited contributors: 14. The Developmental Challenge: Bibliography.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 416 pages, publication date: NOV-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6373-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6373-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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