Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• recognise and explain some different approaches to decision making

• recognise and explain some major factors that influence decision making

• recognise and explain what is understood by environmental decision making and several key concepts that are relevant to it

• recognise and explain how to identify some environmental issues that are of interest or concern and explain why

• recognise and explain what the authors of the course mean by a system, its boundary and environment.