Environmental decision making to support the sustainable development planning

Planning and decision-making are encouraged to improve their performance to support the goals of sustainable development. This paper will discuss the nature of planning as a tool to support a better decision making. The greatest challenge towards environmental planning and decision making is the level of uncertainty, while integrating scientific approach is yet considerably the answer to minimize the uncertainty. Somehow, scientific approaches are often difficult to cope with a political framework of decision making for being less adaptive to practical matters. This paper will discuss further the issues and develop a conceptual framework to elaborate scientific and political structures for decision-making.