Uncertainty and the environment : implications for decision making and environmental policy This thought provoking book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty based on the work of George Shackle 1. Introduction : dealing with uncertainty in environmental decision making 2. The decision making context 3. Environmental uncertainty 4. Uncertainty and decision making 5. The Shackle model 6. Case study : the Belize Southern Highway 7. Methodology 8. Results of the application of the Shackle model 9. Discussion : a framework for the evaluation of hard uncertainty in environmental decision making 10. Conclusions