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Adaptive management: a synthesis of current understanding and effective application
- Source :
- Ecological Management and Restoration. 5:177-182
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2004.
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Abstract
- Summary Adaptive management (AM) remains a commonly cited, yet frequently misunderstood, management approach. The aim of AM is to improve environmental management through ‘learning by doing’ and understand the impact of incomplete knowledge, but AM more commonly consists of ad hoc changes in managing environmental resources in the absence of adequate planning and monitoring. Here, we trace and review the development of AM, the central roles of consultation, collaboration and of monitoring, and of quantitative models and simulations. We identify a series of formalized, structured steps included in one AM cycle and review how current AM programs build upon such cycles. We conclude that the best AM outcomes require rigorous and formalized approaches to planning, collaboration, modelling and evaluation. Finally, simulating potential outcomes of an AM cycle in the presence of existing uncertainty can help to identify management strategies that are most likely to succeed in relation to clearly articulated goals.
- Subjects :
- Process management
Relation (database)
Computer science
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental resource
Learning-by-doing (economics)
Adaptive management
Incomplete knowledge
Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS
Approaches of management
business
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Hardware_LOGICDESIGN
Nature and Landscape Conservation
TRACE (psycholinguistics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14428903 and 14427001
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecological Management and Restoration
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........796ee2221eb1260ce9617ec5acebd40d