Strategic Facilitation of Complex Decision-Making - How Process and Context Matter in Global Climate Change Negotiations

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages. Embedding historical analysis, negotiation analysis, political scientific analysis and game theoretical analysis in an integrated analytical framework allows a comprehensive perspective on various dilemmas and self-enforcing dynamics that inhibit decision making. The conceptualization of strategic facilitation highlights the value of leadership, chairmanship and the role of threshold states in facilitating decision making as the global climate change negotiations unfolds.

List of contents

Introduction.- The Climate Change Negotiations - The Value of Context and Modeled Experience.- Understanding the Conflictual Relations in the Global Climate Talks.- Strategic Facilitation of Global Climate Negotiations - Opportunities and Intervention.- Conclusion.

About the author

Dr. Ariel Macaspac Hernández, a political scientist, economist, sociologist and mediator is currently a research fellow at the Chair of Energy Management at the University of Leipzig.

Summary

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages. Embedding historical analysis, negotiation analysis, political scientific analysis and game theoretical analysis in an integrated analytical framework allows a comprehensive perspective on various dilemmas and self-enforcing dynamics that inhibit decision making. The conceptualization of strategic facilitation highlights the value of leadership, chairmanship and the role of threshold states in facilitating decision making as the global climate change negotiations unfolds.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Macaspac Hern¿ez, Ariel Macaspac Hernández
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783319061962
• ISBN: 978-3-31-906196-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 537 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 266 p. 39 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Mediation, Operations Research, B, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, International Relations, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Economics and Finance, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Environmental law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, conflict management, Management decision making, Management science, Environmental Sciences, Operational research, Decision Making, Environment law, Dispute resolution (Law), Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution