ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT In a world of limited financial and human resources, the prioritization of environmental objectives and the resulting funding and implementation of environmental programs is a process which is inevitably defined by both scientific and political judgements. Failure to recognize the multiplicity of interests and judgements required to generate sound environmental management has led to a plethora of incomplete, poorly funded, and inadequately managed environmental projects; an equally devastating body of good ideas that were never explored; and a clutter of contradictory, if not bad. public policy.
