Next Steps for Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

As the prior chapters suggest, information-gathering and analytic tools can be used by a variety of participants in environmental decisions, including the heads of the decision-making organizations, their staffs, and other interested groups and individuals. As has been illuminated in this book, a variety of tools can be used to improve the ways in which information for environmental decisions is obtained, organized, and analyzed. And the use of these tools increases the likelihood that, despite sometimes large uncertainties and unknowns, wise decisions will be made.