Environmental Degradation and the Tyranny of Small Decisions

作者：William E. Odum · 发表于：BioScience · 年份：1982 · DOI：10.2307/1308718 · 被引用次数：243 · 研究领域：Climate Change Policy and Economics、Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Economist Alfred E. Kahn's premise of “the tyranny of small decisions” is applicable to environmental issues. Examples of so-called “small decision effects” range from loss of prime farmland and acid precipitation to mismanagement of the Florida Everglades. A holistic rather than reductionist perspective is needed to avoid the undesirable, cumulative effects of small decisions.