Titlebook: Critical Skills for Environmental Professionals; Putting Knowledge in Jennifer Pontius,Alan McIntosh Textbook 2020 Springer Nature Switzerl

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Decision Support,cause of the complexity of environmental systems, professionals are often faced with complex decisions with no exact “right” answer. In this chapter, we present a rigorous, transparent analytical framework to compare various options, evaluate possible outcomes, justify professional conclusions, and

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Environmental Communication,, and engage stakeholders throughout the process. In this chapter we do not focus on the technical aspects of scientific writing or public speaking, but instead emphasize the tenants of .: knowing your audience, telling a relevant “story”, putting environmental issues into a local context, connectin

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Systems Thinking, A systems thinking approach helps you analyze complex problems more effectively, understand how components of the natural world and human systems influence one another, and identify multiple leverage points that might be used to tackle the problem. Mapping out the physical components, processes, an

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Working Across Scales, influenced by conditions across a broader landscape. Similarly, they must consider how conditions differed before and how they will continue to change in the future. This disconnect between what can currently be measured and the broader inference we need to make requires that environmental professi

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Critical Thinking,are some of the attributes of a critical thinker. Personal characteristics of a critical thinker include curiosity, skepticism, and self-awareness of personal or cognitive bias. Asking the right questions and challenging your own suppositions can pay dividends when you take on complicated environmental problems.

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Scientific Inquiry,ng how to . science is critical. Often this is a dynamic process building on constant interplay between inductive and deductive approaches. Knowing how to form a hypothesis, design a study, use the correct statistical approach, and make appropriate inference are important skills for environmental professionals.