Planning Under Pressure
Planning Under Pressure by John Friend, published by Routledge on April 14, 2016, is a comprehensive guide designed for managers, planners, consultants, and students. This third edition presents the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gained recognition as a practical method for collaborative decision-making in uncertain environments. The book employs clear explanations and helpful diagrams to illustrate effective strategies for addressing complex decision problems and developing actionable plans.
Readers will find insights into navigating various uncertainties—technical, political, and managerial—through a strategic lens. The edition includes contributions from 21 users across seven countries, sharing their experiences in applying the Strategic Choice Approach to diverse scenarios, such as urban planning and national policy issues. With 416 pages, this edition serves as a valuable resource for those involved in architecture, urban and land use planning, and management science.
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Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.
Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action. Along he way, decision makers are helped to cope with diverse sources of uncertainty – technical, political, managerial – in a strategic manner.
In this extended third edition, the authors have added short contributions from 21 users from seven countries. These new contributors present lessons from their varied experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decision-making and learning in settings ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.
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