"The authors offer managers, planners, consultants and students a range of practical and extensively-applied tools for planning under pressure. Starting from basic principles, they use helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching complex decision problems, devising ways forward and working speedily towards agreed courses of action, coping with all kinds of uncertainties along the way." In this extended third edition, the authors introduce fifteen short contributions that present lessons from varied international experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decisions in settings ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.