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Adaptive Co-management Networks: a Comparative Analysis of Two Fishery Conservation Areas in Sweden
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rova, Carl; Division of Social Science/Political Science Unit, Lule&amp;aring; University of Technology, Sweden; carl.rova@ltu.se.
Co-management constitutes a certain type of institutional arrangement that has gained increased attention among both policy makers and researchers involved in the field of natural resource management. Yet the concept of co-management is broad, and our knowledge about how different kinds of management structures affect the ability to deal with challenges pertinent to the commons is limited. One of these challenges is to foster an adaptive management process, i.e., a process in which rules are continuously revised and changed according to what is known about the ecological system. We aim to address the relationship between different kinds of co-management structures and adaptive management. To this end, we conducted a comparative case study of two Fishery...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Co-management; Governance; Natural resource management; Social networks; Social network analysis; SNA.
Ano: 2010

Policy dimensions of land-use change in peri-urban floodplains: the case of Paraty
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: van der Horst, Dan; University of Edinburgh; d.vanderhorst@bham.ac.uk; Carneiro, Paulo; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; carneiro@hidro.ufrj.br; Amis, Philip; University of Birmingham, International Development Department; P.Amis@bham.ac.uk; Ioris, Antonio; University of Edinburgh; a.ioris@ed.ac.uk.
Peri-urban floodplains located in upstream reaches of urban areas play a key role in the resilience of social-ecological systems. The need to adapt to increasing flood risks by protecting these natural assets represents a huge challenge for many cities facing rapid expansion and limited financial resources for the mitigation of environmental impacts. To understand how better governance and management can be put in place, there is a need to map the key players shaping and/or being impacted by land-use change processes and assess the barriers keeping them from playing a more constructive role in the collaborative governance of cities, the natural resources which sustain them, and the environmental risks that pose a threat.  A conceptualization of power...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Brazil; Flood prevention; Land-use adaptation; Reflexive governance; Water-flow regulation services.
Ano: 2015

An appraisal of adaptive management planning and implementation in ecological restoration: case studies from the San Francisco Bay Delta, USA
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Nagarkar, Mita; University of Copenhagen; mita.nagarkar@gmail.com; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; University of Copenhagen; krr@ign.ku.dk.
Adaptive management has been defined and redefined in the context of natural resource management, yet there are few examples of its successful application in ecological restoration. Although the 2009 Delta Reform Act now legally requires adaptive management for all restoration efforts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, in California, USA, projects in this region still encounter problems with implementation. We used a comparative case study analysis to examine adaptive management planning and implementation both in and around the Delta, assessing not only why adaptive management is not yet well implemented, but also what changes can be made to facilitate the adaptive management approach without sacrificing scientific rigor. Adaptive management seems to be...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecological restoration; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; Social ecological systems; Tidal marsh.
Ano: 2016

Finding a PATH toward Scientific Collaboration: Insights from the Columbia River Basin
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Marmorek, David; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; dmarmorek@essa.com; Peters, Calvin; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; cpeters@essa.com.
Observed declines in the Snake River basin salmon stocks, listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), have been attributed to multiple causes: the hydrosystem, hatcheries, habitat, harvest, and ocean climate. Conflicting and competing analyses by different agencies led the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 1995 to create the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses (PATH), a collaborative interagency analytical process. PATH included about 30 fisheries scientists from a dozen agencies, as well as independent participating scientists and a technical facilitation team. PATH had some successes and some failures in meeting its objectives. Some key lessons learned from these successes and failures were to: (1) build trust through independent...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Analytical framework; Collaborative process; Columbia River; Decision analysis; Endangered species; Hydrosystem; Multi-agency research; Salmon management; Snake River.
Ano: 2001

Toward a Relational Concept of Uncertainty: about Knowing Too Little, Knowing Too Differently, and Accepting Not to Know
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dewulf, Art; Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University; art.dewulf@psy.kuleuven.be; Taillieu, Tharsi; Center for Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; tharsi.taillieu@psy.kuleuven.be.
Uncertainty of late has become an increasingly important and controversial topic in water resource management, and natural resources management in general. Diverse managing goals, changing environmental conditions, conflicting interests, and lack of predictability are some of the characteristics that decision makers have to face. This has resulted in the application and development of strategies such as adaptive management, which proposes flexibility and capability to adapt to unknown conditions as a way of dealing with uncertainties. However, this shift in ideas about managing has not always been accompanied by a general shift in the way uncertainties are understood and handled. To improve this situation, we believe it is necessary to recontextualize...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ambiguity; Frames; Framing; Knowledge relationship; Multiple knowledge frames; Natural resource management; Negotiation; Participation; Social learning; Uncertainty; Water management.
Ano: 2008

The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The Circus as a Model for Viewing Identity, Change, and Chaos
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Loring, Philip A; University of Alaska, Fairbanks; ftpal@uaf.edu.
Resilience, adaptability, and transformability are all tightly linked to the notion of change, whether in respect to coping with, adapting to, or harnessing it. But in order to understand these forces of change, we first need to recognize its counterpart: identity. Identity of a social-ecological system is not merely a static set of quantifiable feedbacks or indicators, but a more qualitative characterization of what results from the overlap of the social and the ecological. To fully articulate these ideas, I turn to a unique and enduring phenomenon: the traveling circus. Through the many forms they have taken over the last 150 yr, circuses have changed significantly while sustaining a singular identity. As a successful and enduring social system, their...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Circus; Panarchy; Resilience; Sustainability; Tribe; Tribalism.
Ano: 2007

Cross-cultural Conflicts in Fire Management in Northern Australia: Not so Black and White
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Andersen, Alan; Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; Alan.Andersen@terc.csiro.au.
European ("scientific") and Aboriginal ("experiential") perspectives on fire management in northern Australia are often contrasted with each other. For Europeans, management is portrayed as a science-based, strategically directed and goal-oriented exercise aimed at achieving specific ecological outcomes. In contrast, landscape burning by Aboriginal people is more of an emergent property, diffusely arising from many uses of fire that serve social, cultural, and spiritual, as well as ecological, needs. Aboriginal knowledge is acquired through tradition and personal experience, rather than through the scientific paradigm of hypothesis testing. Here I argue that, in practice, science plays only a marginal role in European fire management in northern Australia....
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal burning; Adaptive management; Australia; Cross-cultural conflict; Fire ecology; Land management; Management culture; Performance indicators; Science culture; Strategic goals; Traditional fire ecology and management.
Ano: 1999

Social Learning and Water Resources Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Craps, Marc; Katholieke Universiteit;; Dewulf, Art; Katholieke Universiteit;; Mostert, Erik; Delft University of Technology;; Tabara, David; Autonomous Unversity of Barcelona;; Taillieu, Tharsi; Katholieke Universiteit;.
Natural resources management in general, and water resources management in particular, are currently undergoing a major paradigm shift. Management practices have largely been developed and implemented by experts using technical means based on designing systems that can be predicted and controlled. In recent years, stakeholder involvement has gained increasing importance. Collaborative governance is considered to be more appropriate for integrated and adaptive management regimes needed to cope with the complexity of social-ecological systems. The paper presents a concept for social learning and collaborative governance developed in the European project HarmoniCOP (Harmonizing COllaborative Planning). The concept is rooted in the more interpretive strands of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Social learning; Collaborative governance; Adaptive management; Water resources.
Ano: 2007

Truths and governance for adaptive management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Loftin, M. Kent; SynInt Inc.; CAMNet; kloftin@synint.com.
Managing large-scale water resources and ecosystem projects is a never ending job, and success should be measured in terms of achieving desired project performance and not just meeting prescriptive requirements of planning and constructing a project simply on time and within budget.  Success is more than studying, planning, designing, or operating projects.  It is developing the right plan, getting it implemented, and seeing that it is operated and performs properly.  Success requires all of these, and failing any of these results in wasted resources and potential for doing great harm.      Adaptive management can help make success possible by providing a means for solving the most complex problems, answering unanswered questions, and, in general, reducing...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecosystem restoration; Governance; Implementation; Integrating risk and uncertainty; Performance; Project management; Resolutional sufficiency; Resolving uncertainties; Risk management; Stakeholders; Success; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2014

The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionality of Rivers and Floodplains
Provedor de dados: 7
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Conflict resolution; Social learning; Adaptive management; Participatory modeling; Floodplain restoration.
Ano: 2006

Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Fred A; U.S. Geological Survey; fjohnson@usgs.gov; Eaton, Mitchell J; U.S. Geological Survey; mitchell.eaton@usgs.gov; McMahon, Gerard; U.S. Geological Survey; gmcmahon@usgs.gov; Nilius, Raye; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; raye_nilius@fws.gov; Bryant, Michael R.; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; mike_bryant@fws.gov; Case, David J.; DJ Case &amp; Associates; dave@djcase.com; Martin, Julien; U.S. Geological Survey; julienmartin@usgs.gov; Wood, Nathan J; U.S. Geological Survey; nwood@usgs.gov; Taylor, Laura; North Carolina State University; lotaylor@ncsu.edu.
National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in the United States play an important role in the adaptation of social-ecological systems to climate change, land-use change, and other global-change processes. Coastal refuges are already experiencing threats from sea-level rise and other change processes that are largely beyond their ability to influence, while at the same time facing tighter budgets and reduced staff.  We engaged in workshops with NWR managers along the U.S. Atlantic coast to understand the problems they face from global-change processes and began a multidisciplinary collaboration to use decision science to help address them. We are applying a values-focused approach to base management decisions on the resource objectives of land managers, as well as...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Allocation; Decision analysis; Ecosystem valuation; Global change; National Wildlife Refuge; Objectives; Policy; Portfolio analysis; Reserve design; Stakeholders.
Ano: 2015

Governance for Resilience: CALFED as a Complex Adaptive Network for Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Booher, David E.; Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University Sacramento; dbooher@berkeley.edu; Innes, Judith E.; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley; jinnes@berkeley.edu.
A study of California&amp;#8217;s water planning and management process, known as CALFED, offers insights into governance strategies that can deal with adaptive management of environmental resources in ways that conventional bureaucratic procedures cannot. CALFED created an informal policy-making system, engaging multiple agencies and stakeholders. The research is built on data from 5 years of field work that included interviews with participants, review of documents, and observation of meetings. We argue that CALFED can be seen as a self-organizing complex adaptive network (CAN) in which interactions were generally guided by collaborative heuristics. The case demonstrates several innovative governance practices, including new practices and norms for...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative governance; Complex adaptive systems; Consensus building; Policy network; Resilient resource management; Water policy.
Ano: 2010

The Multifaceted Aspects of Ecosystem Integrity
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: De Leo, Giulio A; Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell' Ambiente; deleo@dsa.unipr.it; Levin, Simon A; Princeton University; slevin@eno.princeton.edu.
The need to reduce human impacts on ecosystems creates pressure for adequate response, but the rush to solutions fosters the oversimplification of such notions as sustainable development and ecosystem health. Hence, it favors the tendency to ignore the complexity of natural systems. In this paper, after a brief analysis of the use and abuse of the notion of ecosystem health, we address the problem of a sound definition of ecosystem integrity, critically review the different methodological and conceptual approaches to the management of natural resources, and sketch the practical implications stemming from their implementation. We show thatthere are merits and  limitations in different definitions of ecosystem integrity, for each acknowledges different...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Complexity and stability; Conservation strategies; Disturbance  anthropogenic; Disturbance  natural; Ecosystem integrity; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosytem structure; Natural resource management; Resilience; Sustainable development.
Ano: 1997

Integrating Citizens in Adaptive Management: A Propositional Analysis
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Shindler, Bruce; Oregon State University; bruce.shindler@orst.edu; Aldred Cheek, Kristin; University of Montana; cheekK@forestry.umt.edu.
Lee has advocated for the use of civic science in the implementation of adaptive management experiments, noting that people and political processes are central features of adaptive approaches to land management. This paper explores the growing relationship between the public and forest management agencies, and uses a propositional analysis to guide methods for integrating citizens into adaptive management situations. Important characteristics are organized and discussed in six thematic areas. Citizen-agency interactions are more effective when (1) they are open and inclusive, (2) they are built on skilled leadership and interactive forums, (3) they include innovative and flexible methods, (4) involvement is early and continuous, (5) efforts result in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Citizen-agency interactions; Civic science; Flexibility; Forest management; Inclusion; Innovation; Propositional analysis; Public involvement.
Ano: 1999

Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Monitoring Populations for Co-Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moller, Henrik; University of Otago; henrik.moller@stonebow.otago.ac.nz; Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca; Lyver, Philip O'Brian; University of Otago; LyverP@landcareresearch.co.nz; Kislalioglu, Mina; University of Manitoba; mberkes@mts.net.
Using a combination of traditional ecological knowledge and science to monitor populations can greatly assist co-management for sustainable customary wildlife harvests by indigenous peoples. Case studies from Canada and New Zealand emphasize that, although traditional monitoring methods may often be imprecise and qualitative, they are nevertheless valuable because they are based on observations over long time periods, incorporate large sample sizes, are inexpensive, invite the participation of harvesters as researchers, and sometimes incorporate subtle multivariate cross checks for environmental change. A few simple rules suggested by traditional knowledge may produce good management outcomes consistent with fuzzy logic thinking. Science can sometimes...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Catch per unit effort; Community-based conservation; Customary harvesting; Indigenous people; Population monitoring; Sustainability; New Zealand; Canada.
Ano: 2004

Lessons Learned from the First Decade of Adaptive Management in Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: LoSchiavo, Andrew J.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; andrew.j.loschiavo@usace.army.mil; Best, Ronnie G.; United States Geological Survey; Ronnie_Best@usgs.gov; Burns, Rebecca E.; Atkins Global - North America; Rebecca.Burns@atkinsglobal.com; Gray, Susan; South Florida Water Management District; sgray@sfwmd.gov; Harwell, Matthew C.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Harwell.Matthew@epamail.epa.gov; Hines, Eliza B.; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Eliza_Hines@fws.gov; McLean, Agnes R.; Everglades National Park ; Agnes_McLean@nps.gov; St. Clair, Tom; RESPEC; Tom.stclair@respec.com; Traxler, Steve; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Steve_Traxler@fws.gov; Vearil, James W.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; James.W.Vearil@usace.army.mil.
Although few successful examples of large-scale adaptive management applications are available to ecosystem restoration scientists and managers, examining where and how the components of an adaptive management program have been successfully implemented yields insight into what approaches have and have not worked. We document five key lessons learned during the decade-long development and implementation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) Collaborative Adaptive Management Program that might be useful to other adaptive management practitioners. First, legislative and regulatory authorities that require the development of an adaptive management program are necessary to maintain funding and support to set up and implement adaptive...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision-making; Everglades; Monitoring; Restoration.
Ano: 2013

Social Networks in Natural Resource Management: What Is There to Learn from a Structural Perspective?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Crona, Beatrice; Stockholm University; beatrice@ecology.su.se; Ernstson, Henrik; Stockholm University; henrik@ecology.su.se.
Social networks among actors and stakeholders are gaining attention in studies of natural resource management, particularly those of adaptive management based on different forms of participation and co-management. In this sense, social networks have primarily been envisioned as enabling different actors to collaborate and coordinate management efforts. Here, we continue the discussion initiated by Newman and Dale (2005), which highlighted the fact that not all social networks are created equal. We discuss the relation between some structural characteristics and functions of social networks with respect to natural resource management, thus focusing on structural implications that are often overlooked when studying social networks within the context of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Response
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Co-management; Natural resource management; Social networks; Structure.
Ano: 2006

Results Chains:  a Tool for Conservation Action Design, Management, and Evaluation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Margoluis, Richard; Foundations of Success;; Stem, Caroline; Foundations of Success;; Swaminathan, Vinaya; Foundations of Success; vinaya@fosonline.org; Brown, Marcia; Foundations of Success;; Johnson, Arlyne; Foundations of Success;; Placci, Guillermo; Foundations of Success;; Salafsky, Nick; Foundations of Success; Nick@FOSonline.org; Tilders, Ilke; Foundations of Success;.
Every day, the challenges to achieving conservation grow.  Threats to species, habitats, and ecosystems multiply and intensify.  The conservation community has invested decades of resources and hard work to reduce or eliminate these threats.  However, it struggles to demonstrate that its efforts are having an impact. In recent years, conservation project managers, teams, and organizations have found themselves under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable impacts that can be attributed to their actions.  To do so, they need to answer three important questions: (1) Are we achieving our desired impact?; (2) Have we selected the best interventions to achieve our desired impact?; and (3) Are we executing our interventions in the best possible manner?  We...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Assumption; Effectiveness; Evaluation; Impact; Measure; Monitoring; Outcome; Planning; Results chains; Theory of change.
Ano: 2013

Managing Change toward Adaptive Water Management through Social Learning
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; University of Osnabrueck; pahl@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; sendzim@iiasa.ac.at; Jeffrey, Paul; Cranfield University; p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk; Aerts, Jeroen; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; jeroen.aerts@ivm.vu.nl; Berkamp, Ger; IUCN - The World Conservation Union; GJB@hq.iucn.org; Cross, Katharine; IUCN - The World Conservation Union; Katharine.Cross@iucn.org.
The management of water resources is currently undergoing a paradigm shift toward a more integrated and participatory management style. This paper highlights the need to fully take into account the complexity of the systems to be managed and to give more attention to uncertainties. Achieving this requires adaptive management approaches that can more generally be defined as systematic strategies for improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of previous management actions. This paper describes how the principles of adaptive water management might improve the conceptual and methodological base for sustainable and integrated water management in an uncertain and complex world. Critical debate is structured around four questions:...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Integrated water resources management; Social learning; Adaptive governance; Change management; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2007

Adaptive Management and Social Learning in Collaborative and Community-Based Monitoring: a Study of Five Community-Based Forestry Organizations in the western USA
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria E.; Colorado State University; gimenez@warnercnr.colostate.edu; Ballard, Heidi L.; University of California - Davis; hballard@ucdavis.edu; Sturtevant, Victoria E.; Southern Oregon University; sturtevant@sou.edu.
Collaborative and community-based monitoring are becoming more frequent, yet few studies have examined the process and outcomes of these monitoring approaches. We studied 18 collaborative or community-based ecological assessment or monitoring projects undertaken by five community-based forestry organizations (CBFs), to investigate the objectives, process, and outcomes of collaborative ecological monitoring by CBF organizations. We found that collaborative monitoring can lead to shared ecological understanding among diverse participants, build trust internally and credibility externally, foster social learning and community-building, and advance adaptive management. The CBFs experienced challenges in recruiting and sustaining community participation in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative monitoring; Multiparty monitoring; Community-based monitoring; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social learning.
Ano: 2008

Charting the New Territory of Adaptive Co-management: A Delphi Study
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Plummer, Ryan; Brock University; rplummer@brocku.ca; Armitage, Derek R; Wilfrid Laurier University; darmitag@wlu.ca.
Complex systems understanding implies a world characterized by dynamic, nonlinear interactions, discontinuities, and surprises. Such conditions are not amenable to conventional resource management approaches that stress command-and-control, and therefore, novel governance approaches more suited to complexity and uncertainty are required. Adaptive co-management has emerged as an interdisciplinary response to this need, and blends the adaptive management and collaborative management narratives. However, concepts associated with adaptive co-management are relatively new and quickly expanding from multiple perspectives. The objective of this paper is to take stock of this relatively recent concept and synthesize current thinking in terms of: (1) the core...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive co-management; Adaptive management; Collaboration; Delphi method; Environmental governance.
Ano: 2007

Are There Scientific Criteria for Putting Short-term Conservation Ahead of Learning? No.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hinrichsen, Richard A; Hinrichsen Environmental Services; hinrich@seanet.com.
Kai Lee asks "Are there clearly articulated scientific criteria for putting short-term conservation ahead of learning? (That is, are there conservation situations where we know enough not to need to worry about surprises?)" There can be no such scientific criteria, even in the most trivial of circumstances, because it is really a question of societal values. In cases in which societal values favor conservation of an endangered or threatened population, reliable learning is unlikely to be placed ahead of short-term conservation, partly because it is uncertain whether learning will really improve the prospects for population recovery. Given the prevailing societal values and scientific realities surrounding endangered or threatened populations, the question...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Snake River; Adaptive management; Chinook salmon; Endangered populations; Learning; Scientific criteria; Short-term conservation; Societal values.
Ano: 2000

Resilience Thinking and a Decision-Analytic Approach to Conservation: Strange Bedfellows or Essential Partners?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Fred A; United States Geological Survey; fjohnson@usgs.gov; Williams, B. Ken; The Wildlife Society; byron_ken_williams@nbs.gov; Nichols, James D; United States Geological Survey; Jim_Nichols@usgs.gov.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Alternative stability regime; Biodiversity; Conservation; Decision analysis; Decision science; Dynamic decisions; Modeling; Optimization; Resilience; Robust decision making; Systems; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2013

Adapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modeling
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lynam, Timothy; Tropical Resource Ecology Program, University of Zimbabwe; tlynam@science.uz.ac.zw; Bousquet, Francois; CIRAD Tera; bousquet@cirad.fr; Le Page, Christophe; CIRAD Tera; lepage@cirad.fr; d'Aquino, P.; CIRAD Tera; daquino@telecomplus.sn; Barreteau, Olivier; Cemagref Division Irrigation; barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr; Chinembiri, Frank C; Agritex;; Mombeshora, Bright; ;.
Two case studies are presented in which models were used as focal tools in problems associated with common-pool resource management in developing countries. In the first case study, based in Zimbabwe, Bayesian or Belief Networks were used in a project designed to enhance the adaptive management capacity of a community in a semiarid rangeland system. In the second case study, based in Senegal, multi-agent systems models were used in the context of role plays to communicate research findings to a community, as well as to explore policies for improved management of rangelands and arable lands over which herders and farmers were in conflict.  The paper provides examples of the use of computer-based modeling with stakeholders who had limited experience with...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Bayesian belief networks; Developing country; Dynamic modeling; Multi-agent systems; Participatory modeling; Semiarid rangeland; Senegal; Spidergrams; Zimbabwe.
Ano: 2002

Collaborative Adaptive Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Scarlett, Lynn; Resources for the Future; lynnscarlett@comcast.net.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Collaborative adaptive management; Conservation; Science and decision making.
Ano: 2013

Designing Collaborative Processes for Adaptive Management:  Four Structures for Multistakeholder Collaboration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pratt Miles, Jennifer D.; Meridian Institute; jprattmiles@merid.org.
Parties should consider a collaborative approach to scientific inquiry and learning when there are multiple jurisdictions, resource users, and viewpoints about the best way to manage a social-ecological system. A collaborative process provides a forum for scientists, managers, and other stakeholders to raise and explain concerns, articulate management goals, and suggest strategies to address concerns and management actions to achieve goals. Collaborative problem solving engages parties in dialogue that facilitates understanding of different perspectives and creates an opportunity to reframe problems as hypotheses to be tested through the adaptive management process.    I review four potential structures for multistakeholder collaboration that have been...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Collaborative process; Ecosystem management; Natural resource management; Stakeholder.
Ano: 2013

Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Environmental Protection Agency, USA; garmestani.ahjond@epa.gov; Allen, Craig R.; U.S. Geological Survey - Nebraska Cooperative Fish &amp; Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.  ; allencr@unl.edu; Benson, Melinda H.; Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.; mhbenson@unm.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Adaptive management; Law; Social-ecological resilience.
Ano: 2013

Appraising Adaptive Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lee, Kai N; Williams College; Kai.N.Lee@williams.edu.
Adaptive management is appraised as a policy implementation approach by examining its conceptual, technical, equity, and practical strengths and limitations. Three conclusions are drawn: (1) Adaptive management has been more influential, so far, as an idea than as a practical means of gaining insight into the behavior of ecosystems utilized and inhabited by humans. (2) Adaptive management should be used only after disputing parties have agreed to an agenda of questions to be answered using the adaptive approach; this is not how the approach has been used. (3) Efficient, effective social learning, of the kind facilitated by adaptive management, is likely to be of strategic importance in governing ecosystems as humanity searches for a sustainable economy.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Conservation biology; Ecosystem management; Sustainability transition; Sustainable development.
Ano: 1999

Protocol and Practice in the Adaptive Management of Waterfowl Harvests
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Fred; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; fred_a_johnson@fws.gov; Williams, Ken; ; byron_ken_williams@nbs.gov.
Waterfowl harvest management in North America, for all its success, historically has had several shortcomings, including a lack of well-defined objectives, a failure to account for uncertain management outcomes, and inefficient use of harvest regulations to understand the effects of management. To address these and other concerns, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began implementation of adaptive harvest management in 1995. Harvest policies are now developed using a Markov decision process in which there is an explicit accounting for uncontrolled environmental variation, partial controllability of harvest, and structural uncertainty in waterfowl population dynamics. Current policies are passively adaptive, in the sense that any reduction in structural...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Harvest; Hunting regulations; Markov decision process; Migratory birds; Optimization; Uncertainty; Waterfowl.
Ano: 1999

Opportunities for Collaborative Adaptive Management Progress: Integrating Stakeholder Assessments into Progress Measurement
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Berkley, Jim; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; jberkleyh2o@gmail.com.
Collaborative Adaptive Management (CAM) program stakeholders informally assess program progress through subjective assessments regularly. Each stakeholder does this by individually selecting objective progress indicators based on their needs, values, and preferences. They do this even though there may be a stakeholder group agreed-on set of progress objectives. Individual stakeholder indicators may be a subset of the group set or outside of the agreed-on set. This is because many factors influence behavior, and stakeholders may act differently in group settings as opposed to individual settings. These assessments can provide valuable information about stakeholder needs that are not being met, and potential motivations for stakeholders circumventing a CAM...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Adaptive Management Working Group; AMP; AMWG; Attitudes; Behavior; Collaborative adaptive management; Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program; Missouri River Recovery Program; MRRP; Progress; Stakeholders.
Ano: 2013

Insights into integrating cumulative effects and collaborative co-management for migratory tundra caribou herds in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gunn, Anne; ; gunnan@telus.net; Russell, Don; ; don.russell@ec.gc.ca; Greig, Lorne; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; lgreig@essa.com.
Globally, many migratory mammals are facing threats. In northern Canada, large annual ranges expose migratory caribou to an array of human activities, including industrial exploration and development. Recognition that responses to human activities can accumulate for caribou is long-standing, but is heightened by recent declines in caribou abundance. For example, since the mid-1990s, the Bathurst herd has declined by approximately 90%, leading to severe harvest restrictions. More mines are being proposed and developed across the herd&amp;#8217;s annual range, raising questions about cumulative effects. Despite progress on assessment techniques, aboriginal groups are expressing strong concerns and frustration about gaps in responsibilities for who should...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Arctic Canada; Cumulative effects; Migratory caribou; Mitigation; Monitoring.
Ano: 2014

Using Expert Judgment and Stakeholder Values to Evaluate Adaptive Management Options
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Failing, Lee; Compass Resource Management; lfailing@compassrm.com; Horn, Graham; ; ghorn@planit.bc.ca; Higgins, Paul; ; paul.Higgins@bchydro.bc.ca.
This paper provides an example of a practical integration of probabilistic policy analysis and multi-stakeholder decision methods at a hydroelectric facility in British Columbia, Canada. A structured decision-making framework utilizing the probabilistic judgments of experts, a decision tree, and a Monte Carlo simulation provided insight to a decision to implement an experimental flow release program. The technical evaluation of the expected costs and benefits of the program were integrated into the multi-stakeholder decision process. The framework assessed the magnitude of the uncertainty, its potential to affect water management decisions, the predictive ability of the experiment, the value of the expected costs and benefits, and the preferences of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision analysis; Expert judgment; Hydroelectricity; Multi-attribute evaluation; Multi-stakeholder consultation; Risk management; Value of information.
Ano: 2004

The Role of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Managing Rangelands Sustainably in Northern Iran
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ghorbani, Mehdi; Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran; mehghorbani@ut.ac.ir; Azarnivand, Hossein; Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran; hazar@ut.ac.ir; Mehrabi, Ali Akbar; Department of Watershed Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; amehrabi@ut.ac.ir; Jafari, Mohammad; Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran; mjafary@ut.ac.ir; Nayebi, Hooshang; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran; hnayebi@ut.ac.ir.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecological memory; Grazing management; Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK); Pastoralists; Rangeland management; Rangeland utilization; Taleghan region  Iran.
Ano: 2013

Developing Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Joint Management Effectiveness in Protected Areas in the Northern Territory, Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Izurieta, Arturo; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University; arturo_izurieta@hotmail.com; Sithole, Bevlyne; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Stacey, Natasha; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University; natasha.stacey@cdu.edu.au; Hunter-Xenie, Hmalan; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Campbell, Bruce; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Donohoe, Paul; Northern Land Council;; Brown, Jessie; Wardaman Traditional Owner;; Wilson, Lincoln; Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport/NT Parks and Wildlife Service;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Evaluation; Indigenous people; Joint management; Management effectiveness; Monitoring; Participation; Partnership; Protected areas.
Ano: 2011

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: von Korff, Yorck; Lisode; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; yorck.von-korff@lisode.com; Daniell, Katherine A; The Australian National University; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; k.a.daniell@gmail.com; Moellenkamp, Sabine; University of Osnabrueck; sabine.moellenkamp@gmx.de; Bots, Pieter; Delft University of Technology; p.w.g.bots@tudelft.nl; Bijlsma, Rianne M; University of Twente; Deltares; r.m.bredenhoff@gmail.com.
Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called &amp;#8220;messes&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;wicked problems.&amp;#8221; The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods and processes being proposed to aid water planning and management, which include participatory forms of modeling, planning, and decision aiding processes. However, despite extensive scientific discussions, scholars have largely been unable to provide satisfactory responses to two pivotal questions: (1) What are the benefits of using participatory approaches?; (2) How exactly...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative decision making; Evaluation; Interactive planning; Participatory modeling; Participatory research; Process design; Public participation; Social learning; Stakeholder participation; Water resources management.
Ano: 2012

Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mostert, Erik; Delft University of Technology; E.Mostert@TUDelft.NL.
One of the central tenets of adaptive management is polycentric governance. Yet, despite the popularity of the concept, few detailed case studies of polycentric governance systems exist. In this paper, we aim to partly fill this gap. We describe water management between the years 1000 and 1953 on the Dutch island of IJsselmonde in the Netherlands near Rotterdam, and then use this case to reflect on the theory of polycentric governance. Despite the small size of the island, water management on IJsselmonde was the responsibility of no fewer than 31 local jurisdictions and some 65 polders. In addition, some supra-local arrangements were made, such as joint supervision of dikes. According to the theory, such a polycentric system should have many advantages...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Drainage; Flood management; Island of IJsselmonde  Netherlands; Petrification; Polycentric governance; Water resources management.
Ano: 2012

Adaptive management in crop pest control in the face of climate variability: an agent-based modeling approach
Provedor de dados: 7
Climate changes are occurring rapidly at both regional and global scales. Farmers are faced with the challenge of developing new agricultural practices to help them to cope with unpredictable changes in environmental, social, and economic conditions. Under these conditions, adaptive management requires a farmer to learn by monitoring provisional strategies and changing conditions, and then incrementally adjust management practices in light of new information. Exploring adaptive management will increase our understanding of the underlying processes that link farmer societies with their environment across space and time, while accounting for the impacts of an unpredictable climate. Here, we assessed the impacts of temperature and crop price, as surrogates...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agent-based model; Agro-ecosystems; Farmers; Pest.
Ano: 2015

An information ecology approach to science&amp;#8211;policy integration in adaptive management of social-ecological systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Eddy, Brian G; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Brian.Eddy@NRCan.gc.ca; Hearn, Brian; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Brian.Hearn@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca; Luther, Joan E; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; JoanE.Luther@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca; van Zyll de Jong, Michael; Environmental Policy Institute, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland; michaelv@grenfell.mun.ca; Bowers, Wade; Environmental Policy Institute, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland; wbowers@grenfell.mun.ca; Parsons, Reg; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Reg.Parsons@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca; Piercey, Douglas; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Douglas.Piercey@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca; Strickland, Guy; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Guy.Strickland@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca; Wheeler, Barry; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada; Barry.Wheeler@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca.
Adaptive management of social-ecological systems requires integration and collaboration among scientists, policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders across multiple disciplines and organizations. Challenges associated with such integration have been attributed to gaps between how human systems are organized and how ecosystems function. To address this gap, we explore the application of information ecology as a theoretical basis for integrating human systems and natural systems. First, we provide an overview of information ecology with reference to its relationship with information theory and how we define &amp;#8220;information.&amp;#8221; Principles governing whole-part relationships, i.e., holons and holarchies, are then used to develop a general...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecosystems-based management; Holons; Information ecology; Information theory; Science&amp;#8211; Policy integration.
Ano: 2014

Temporal constraints on ecosystem management: definitions and examples from Europe&amp;#8217;s regional seas
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: O'Higgins, Tim; Scottish Association for Marine Science; Tim.O\\\'Higgins@sams.ac.uk; Cooper, Philip; School of Management, University of Bath; p.cooper@bath.ac.uk; Roth, Eva; Southern Denmark University; er@sam.sdu.dk; Newton, Alice; Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU); anewton@ualg.pt; Farmer, Andrew; Institute for European Environmental Policy; AFarmer@ieep.eu; Goulding, Ian C; Megapesca Lda.; ian@megapesca.com; Tett, Paul; Scottish Association for Marine Science; paul.tett@sams.ac.uk.
Our ability to meet environmental targets is often constrained by processes and events that occur over long timescales and which may not be considered during the planning process. We illustrate with examples and define three major types of temporal scale phenomena of relevance to marine managers: Memory and Future Effects (jointly called Legacy Effects) and Committed Behaviors. We examine the role of these effects in achieving marine environmental targets in Europe under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the implications for future management, indicating the increased importance that these temporal phenomena give to reducing future pressures.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecosystem approach; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Temporal scales.
Ano: 2014

Landscape Change in the Southern Piedmont: Challenges, Solutions, and Uncertainty Across Scales
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Conroy, Michael J; USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; conroy@forestry.uga.edu; Allen, Craig; University of Nebraska; allencr@unl.edu; Peterson, James T; USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit;; Pritchard, Lowell, Jr.; Emory University; lpritc2@emory.edu; Moore, Clinton T; ;.
The southern Piedmont of the southeastern United States epitomizes the complex and seemingly intractable problems and hard decisions that result from uncontrolled urban and suburban sprawl. Here we consider three recurrent themes in complicated problems involving complex systems: (1) scale dependencies and cross-scale, often nonlinear relationships;     (2) resilience, in particular the potential for complex systems to move to alternate stable states with decreased ecological and/or economic value; and (3) uncertainty in the ability to understand and predict outcomes, perhaps particularly those that occur as a result of human impacts. We consider these issues in the context of landscape-level decision making, using as an example water resources and lotic...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Piedmont; Adaptive management; Land use; Model; Resilience; Scale; Sprawl; Uncertainty; Urbanization; Water resources.
Ano: 2003

Surprise and Opportunity for Learning in Grand Canyon: the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Melis, Theodore S; U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center; tmelis@usgs.gov; Walters, Carl J; Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia; c.walters@fisheries.ubc.ca; Korman, Josh; Ecometric Research Inc.; jkorman@ecometric.com.
With a focus on resources of the Colorado River ecosystem below Glen Canyon Dam, the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program has included a variety of experimental policy tests, ranging from manipulation of water releases from the dam to removal of non-native fish within Grand Canyon National Park. None of these field-scale experiments has yet produced unambiguous results in terms of management prescriptions. But there has been adaptive learning, mostly from unanticipated or surprising resource responses relative to predictions from ecosystem modeling. Surprise learning opportunities may often be viewed with dismay by some stakeholders who might not be clear about the purpose of science and modeling in adaptive management. However, the experimental...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Colorado River; Ecosystem modeling; Glen Canyon Dam; Grand Canyon; High-flow experiments; Humpback chub; Rainbow trout; Surprise learning.
Ano: 2015

The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management
Provedor de dados: 7
New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change. Adaptive management and transition management are two examples that evolved from the analysis of social&amp;#8211;ecological and sociotechnical systems, respectively. Both feature strategies of collective experimentation and learning. In this paper, we ask how these two designs of reflexive governance consider politics. Based on a framework of different dimensions and levels of politics, we show that they are mainly concerned with problem solving by a focal process, but conflict and asymmetric power relations, as well as the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Embedding in political context; Governance design; Politics; Reflexive governance; Societal learning; Transition management.
Ano: 2011

From Scientific Speculation to Effective Adaptive Management: A case study of the role of social marketing in promoting novel restoration strategies for degraded dry lands
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Westley, Frances; Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo ; fwestley@watarts.uwaterloo.ca; Holmgren, Milena; Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Department of Environmental Sciences; Milena.Holmgren@wur.nl; Scheffer, Marten; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environment; Marten.Scheffer@wur.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Climate fluctuations; Dryland restoration; Ecosystem restoration; ENSO; Herbivory control; Matorral; Mediterranean shrub land; Reforestation; Social entrepreneur; Social marketing; Stakeholder.
Ano: 2010

Nudging Evolution?
Provedor de dados: 7
This Special Feature,  &amp;#8220;Nudging Evolution? Critical Exploration of the Potential and Limitations of the Concept of Institutional Fit for the Study and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems,&amp;#8221; aims to contribute toward the development of social theory and social research methods for the study of social-ecological system dynamics.  Our objective is to help strengthen the academic discourse concerning if, and if so, how, to what extent, and in what concrete ways the concept of institutional &amp;#8220;fit&amp;#8221; might play a role in helping to develop better understanding of the social components of interlinkages between the socioeconomic-cultural and ecological dynamics of social-ecological systems. Two clearly discernible...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Environmental governance; Institutional change; Institutional fit; Meaning; Oran Young; Protected areas; Social-ecological systems; Social norms; Water governance; Wildlife management.
Ano: 2013

Adaptive Management Planning Projects as Conflict Resolution Processes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walkerden, Greg; Macquarie University; gmw@bwassociates.com.au.
Adaptive management planning projects use multiparty, multidisciplinary workshops and simulation modeling to facilitate dialogue, negotiation, and planning. However, they have been criticized as a poor medium for conflict resolution. Alternative processes from the conflict resolution tradition, e.g., principled negotiation and sequenced negotiation, address uncertainty and biophysical constraints much less skillfully than does adaptive management. When we evaluate adaptive management planning using conflict resolution practice as a benchmark, we can design better planning procedures. Adaptive management planning procedures emerge that explore system structure, dynamics, and uncertainty, and that also provide a strong negotiation process, grounded in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Conflict resolution; Crossing; Ecosystem management; Environmental management; Negotiation; Planning; Practice; Principled negotiation; Professional practice; Resource management; Strategic environmental assessment.
Ano: 2006

Ecosystem Modeling for Evaluation of Adaptive Management Policies in the Grand Canyon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walters, Carl J; University of British Columbia; c.walters@fisheries.ubc.ca; Korman, Josh; Ecometric Research Inc.; jkorman@ecometric.com; Stevens, Lawrence E; Stevens Ecological Consulting; farvana@aol.com; Gold, Barry; The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; bgold@packard.org.
An Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management workshop process was used to assist Grand Canyon scientists and managers in developing conceptual and simulation models for the Colorado ecosystem affected by Glen Canyon Dam. This model examines ecosystem variables and processes at multiple scales in space and time, ranging from feet and hours for benthic algal response to diurnal flow changes, to reaches and decades for sediment storage and dynamics of long-lived native fish species. Its aim is to help screen policy options ranging from changes in hourly variation in flow allowed from Glen Canyon Dam, to major structural changes for restoration of more natural temperature regimes. It appears that we can make fairly accurate predictions about some...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Aquatic primary productivity; Colorado River; Dam; Ecosystem models; Grand Canyon; Habitat restoration; Hydrology; Insect productivity; Native fishes; Riparian ecosystems; Sediment budget.
Ano: 2000

A Framing Approach to Cross-disciplinary Research Collaboration: Experiences from a Large-scale Research Project on Adaptive Water Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dewulf, Art; Center for Organizational and Personnel Psychology (K.U.Leuven); art.dewulf@psy.kuleuven.be; Taillieu, Tharsi; Center for Organizational and Personnel Psychology (K.U.Leuven); tharsi.taillieu@psy.kuleuven.be.
Although cross-disciplinary research collaboration is necessary to achieve a better understanding of how human and natural systems are dynamically linked, it often turns out to be very difficult in practice. We outline a framing approach to cross-disciplinary research that focuses on the different perspectives that researchers from different backgrounds use to make sense of the issues they want to research jointly. Based on interviews, participants&amp;#8217; evaluations, and our own observations during meetings, we analyze three aspects of frame diversity in a large-scale research project. First, we identify dimensions of difference in the way project members frame the central concept of adaptive water management. Second, we analyze the challenges...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Cross-disciplinary research; Framing.
Ano: 2007

Fit in the Body: Matching Embodied Cognition with Social-Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hukkinen, Janne I; University of Helsinki; janne.i.hukkinen@helsinki.fi.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Adaptive management; Blending; Cognitive anthropology; Cognitive linguistics; Conceptual integration; Embodied cognition; Environmental policy; Neoclassical economics; Panarchy; Social-ecological systems; Socio-ecological systems.
Ano: 2012

Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Carpenter, Stephen R; University of Wisconsin-Madison; srcarpen@wisc.edu; Brock, William; University of Wisconsin; brock@macc.wisc.edu; Hanson, Paul; University of Wisconsin; pchanson@facstaff.wisc.edu.
Simulation models were developed to explore and illustrate dynamics of socioecological systems. The ecosystem is a lake subject to phosphorus pollution. Phosphorus flows from agriculture to upland soils, to surface waters, where it cycles between water and sediments. The ecosystem is multistable, and moves among domains of attraction depending on the history of pollutant inputs. The alternative states yield different economic benefits. Agents form expectations about ecosystem dynamics, markets, and/or the actions of managers, and choose levels of pollutant inputs accordingly. Agents have heterogeneous beliefs and/or access to information. Their aggregate behavior determines the total rate of pollutant input. As the ecosystem changes, agents update their...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive agent models; Adaptive management; Bounded rationality; Ecological economics; Ecosystem oscillations; Integrated models; Lake eutrophication; Nonpoint pollution; Phosphorus cycles; Simulation models; Social-natural systems.
Ano: 1999

Challenges in adaptive management of riparian and coastal ecosystems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walters, Carl; University of British Columbia; c.walters@fisheries.ubc.ca.
Many case studies in adaptive-management planning for riparian ecosystems have failed to produce useful models for policy comparison or good experimental management plans for resolving key uncertainties. Modeling efforts have been plagued by difficulties in representation of cross-scale effects (from rapid hydrologic change to long-term ecological response), lack of data on key processes that are difficult to study, and confounding of factor effects in validation data. Experimental policies have been seen as too costly or risky, particularly in relation to monitoring costs and risk to sensitive species. Research and management stakeholders have shown deplorable self-interest, seeing adaptive-policy development as a threat to existing research programs and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Coastal ecosystems; Ecosystem management; Fisheries; Institutional barriers; Management experiments; Modeling; Riparian ecosystems; Simulation.
Ano: 1997

Tools for Resilience Management:  Multidisciplinary Development of State-and-Transition Models for Northwest Colorado
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Kachergis, Emily J.; Bureau of Land Management, Denver, Colorado; emily.kachergis@gmail.com; Knapp, Corrine N.; Alaska Center for Climate and Policy; corrieknapp@yahoo.com; Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria E.; Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University; Maria.Fernandez-Gimenez@colostate.edu; Ritten, John P.; Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming; John.Ritten@uwyo.edu; Pritchett, James G.; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University; James.Pritchett@colostate.edu; Parsons, Jay; Western Center for Integrated Resource Management, Colorado State University; Jay.Parsons@colostate.edu; Hibbs, Willow; Wyoming Game and Fish Department and USDA-NRCS; Willow.Hibbs@wy.usda.gov; Roath, Roy; Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University; Roy.Roath@colostate.edu.
Building models is an important way of integrating knowledge.  Testing and updating models of social-ecological systems can inform management decisions and, ultimately, improve resilience.  We report on the outcomes of a six-year, multidisciplinary model development process in the sagebrush steppe, USA. We focused on creating state-and-transition models (STMs), conceptual models of ecosystem change that represent nonlinear dynamics and are being adopted worldwide as tools for managing ecosystems.  STM development occurred in four steps with four distinct sets of models:  (1) local knowledge elicitation using semistructured interviews; (2) ecological data collection using an observational study; (3) model integration using participatory workshops; and (4)...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecology; Ecosystem dynamics; Knowledge integration; Participatory research; Rangeland; Sagebrush steppe.
Ano: 2013

Uncertainty, Climate Change, and Adaptive Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Peterson, Garry; McGill University; garry.peterson@mcgill.ca; De Leo, Giulio A; Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell' Ambiente; deleo@dsa.unipr.it; Hellmann, Jessica J; Stanford University; jessicah@leland.stanford.edu; Janssen, Marco A; Indiana University; maajanss@indiana.edu; Kinzig, Ann; Arizona State University; Ann.Kinzig@asu.edu; Malcolm, Jay R; University of Toronto; jay.malcolm@utoronto.ca; O'Brien, Karen L; -; kobrien@online.no; Pope, Shealagh E; Environment Canada; shealagh.pope@ec.gc.ca; Rothman, Dale S; Columbia University; drothman@bio2.edu; Shevliakova, Elena; Carnegie Mellon University; lenish@cmu.edu; Tinch, Robert R.T.; York University, UK; rrtt100@york.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Climate change; Global change; Uncertainty; Models.
Ano: 1997

From Scorecard to Social Learning: A Reflective Coassessment Approach for Promoting Multiagency Cooperation in Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Roux, Dirk J; Monash South Africa; International Water Centre; dirk.roux@adm.monash.edu; Murray, Kevin; Insight Modelling Services;; Nel, Jeanne L; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research;; Hill, Liesl; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research;; Roux, Hermien; North West Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Rural Development;; Driver, Amanda; South African National Biodiversity Institute;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Bridging agents; Cross-sector cooperation; Freshwater conservation; Integrated water resources management; Management effectiveness evaluation; Reflective coassessment; Social learning.
Ano: 2011

From Premise to Practice: a Critical Assessment of Integrated Water Resources Management and Adaptive Management Approaches in the Water Sector
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Medema, Wietske; ;; McIntosh, Brian S; ;; Jeffrey, Paul J; ; p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk.
The complexity of natural resource use processes and dynamics is now well accepted and described in theories ranging across the sciences from ecology to economics. Based upon these theories, management frameworks have been developed within the research community to cope with complexity and improve natural resource management outcomes. Two notable frameworks, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Adaptive Management (AM) have been developed within the domain of water resource management over the past thirty or so years. Such frameworks provide testable statements about how best to organise knowledge production and use to facilitate the realisation of desirable outcomes including sustainable resource use. However evidence for the success of IWRM...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Adaptive management; Integrated water resources management; Sustainable water management; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2008

The Multiple Use of Tropical Forests by Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: a Case of Adaptive Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moguel, Patricia; ;.
The quest for an appropriate system of management for tropical ecosystems necessitates that ecologists consider the accumulated experiences of indigenous peoples in their long-term  management of local resources, a subject of current ethnoecology. This paper provides data and empirical evidence of an indigenous multiple-use strategy (MUS) of tropical forest management existing in Mexico, that can be considered a case of adaptive management. This conclusion is based on the observation that some indigenous communities avoid common modernization routes toward specialized, unsustainable, and ecologically disruptive systems of production, and yet probably achieve the most successful tropical forest utilization design, in terms of biodiversity conservation,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ethnoecology; Indigenous peoples; Mexico; Multiple use; Tropical rain forest.
Ano: 2003

Insight into Enabling Adaptive Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Greig, Lorne A.; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; lgreig@essa.com; Marmorek, David R.; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; dmarmorek@essa.com; Murray, Carol; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; cmurray@essa.com; Robinson, Donald C. E.; ESSA Technologies Ltd.; drobinson@essa.com.
The U.S. National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry recognized a need for effective adaptive management to support management for biological diversity. However, difficulties in implementing adaptive management in the U.S. Northwest Forest Plan led the Commission to wonder if comparisons across multiple adaptive management trials in the forest sector could provide insight into the factors that serve to enable or inhibit adaptive management. This comparison and the resulting discussions among a group of seasoned practitioners, with adaptive management experience at a variety of scales and levels of complexity, led to insights into a hierarchy of ten factors that can serve to either enable or inhibit implementation. Doing high quality adaptive...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Enabling factors; Forest; Inhibiting factors.
Ano: 2013

Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin
Provedor de dados: 7
The concept of resilience is widely promoted as a promising notion to guide new approaches to ecosystem and resource management that try to enhance a system's capacity to cope with change. A variety of mechanisms of resilience specific for different systems have been proposed. In the context of resource management those include but are not limited to the diversity of response options and flexibility of the social system to adaptively respond to changes on an adequate scale. However, implementation of resilience-based management in specific real-world systems has often proven difficult because of a limited understanding of suitable interventions and their impact on the resilience of the coupled social-ecological system.  We propose an agent-based modeling...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agent-based model; Amudarya; Diversification; Fisheries; Irrigation; Mechanism; Resilience; River basin; Social-ecological system; Water use.
Ano: 2007

The spread and maturation of strategic adaptive management within and beyond South African national parks
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Freitag, Stefanie; Scientific Services, South African National Parks; stef.freitag@sanparks.org; Biggs, Harry; Conservation Services, South African National Parks; biggs@sanparks.org; Breen, Charles; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal; breenc@telkomsa.net.
Natural resource management is embedded within social-ecological environments and requires decisions to be taken within this broad context, including those that pertain to protected areas. This realization has led to South African National Parks adopting a strategic adaptive management approach to decision making. Through narrative, we show why and how this practice has progressively spread and evolved both within the organization and beyond, over the past two decades. A number of catalytic events and synergies enabled a change from reactive tactical management approaches to more inclusive forward-looking approaches able to embrace system complexity and associated uncertainty and change. We show how this long period of innovation has lead to an increased...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Colearning; Kruger National Park; Protected area stewardship; Social-ecological systems; Systems thinking.
Ano: 2014

Manager perspectives on communication and public engagement in ecological restoration project success
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk; University of Rhode Island; cgd@uri.edu; Hychka, Kristen C.; U.S. EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division; khychka@gmail.com.
We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA and the rivers, wetlands, marshes, and estuaries they work to protect, to draw connections between communication, community involvement, and ecological restoration project success. Offering real-world examples drawn from interviews with 27 local, state, federal, and nonprofit restoration managers, we synthesize the mechanisms that managers found effective to argue that the communication employed by resource managers in each phase of the restoration process, in prioritization, implementation, and monitoring, and for garnering broad-based support, shapes the quality of public engagement in natural resources management, which, in turn, can impact the stakeholder,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Adaptive management; Communication; Discourse analysis; Natural resource management; Public engagement; Public participation; Restoration; River; Stakeholder engagement; Water.
Ano: 2015

Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Scientific Tools for Negotiating Local Solutions to Conflicts between Recreation and Conservation with Stakeholders
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pouwels, Rogier; Wageningen University &amp; Research Centre; rogier.pouwels@wur.nl; Opdam, Paul; Wageningen University &amp; Research Centre; paul.opdam@wur.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Boundary management; Integrated tools; Learning; Local data; Recreation; Spatially explicit; Stakeholders; Tools; Visualization.
Ano: 2011

Panarchy and the Law
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ruhl, J. B.; Vanderbilt University Law School; jb.ruhl@vanderbilt.edu.
Panarchy theory focuses on improving theories of change in natural and social systems to improve the design of policy responses. Its central thesis is that successfully working with the dynamic forces of complex adaptive natural and social systems demands an active adaptive management regime that eschews optimization approaches that seek stability. This is a new approach to resources management, and yet no new theory of how to do things in environmental and natural resources management, particularly one challenging entrenched ways of doing things and the interests aligned around them, is likely to gain traction in practice if it cannot gain traction in the form of endorsement and implementation through specific laws and regulations. At some point, that...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Environmental law; Panarchy theory.
Ano: 2012

Learning More Effectively from Experience
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fazey, Ioan; Australian National University; ifazey@cres.anu.edu.au.; Fazey, John A.; University of Wales, Bangor; pes001@bangor.ac.uk; Fazey, Della M. A.; University of Wales, Bangor; pes007@bangor.ac.uk.
Developing the capacity for individuals to learn effectively from their experiences is an important part of building the knowledge and skills in organizations to do good adaptive management. This paper reviews some of the research from cognitive psychology and phenomenography to present a way of thinking about learning to assist individuals to make better use of their personal experiences to develop understanding of environmental systems. We suggest that adaptive expertise (an individual&amp;#8217;s ability to deal flexibly with new situations) is particularly relevant for environmental researchers and practitioners. To develop adaptive expertise, individuals need to: (1) vary and reflect on their experiences and become adept at seeking out and taking...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Adaptable practitioners; Experience; Expert; Learning; Macquarie Marshes.
Ano: 2005

Periodic Closures as Adaptive Coral Reef Management in the Indo-Pacific
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cinner, Josh; James Cook University; joshua.cinner@jcu.edu.au; Marnane, Michael J; Wildlife Conservation Society;; McClanahan, Timothy R; Wildlife Conservation Society; tmcclanahan@wcs.org; Almany, Glenn R.; James Cook University;.
This study explores the social, economic, and ecological context within which communities in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia use adaptive coral reef management. We tested whether periodic closures had positive effects on reef resources, and found that both the biomass and the average size of fishes commonly caught in Indo-Pacific subsistence fisheries were greater inside areas subject to periodic closures compared to sites with year-round open access. Surprisingly, both long-lived and short-lived species benefited from periodic closures. Our study sites were remote communities that shared many socioeconomic characteristics; these may be crucial to the effectiveness of adaptive management of reef resources through periodic closures. Some of these factors...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Coral reefs; Socioeconomic; Periodic closures; Traditional management; Social-ecological systems.
Ano: 2006

A Classification of Collaborative Management Methods
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Blumenthal, Dana M; University of Minnesota; dblumenthal@npa.ars.usda.gov; Jannink, Jean-Luc; University of Minnesota; jjannink@iastate.edu.
Collaboration among multiple stakeholders can be crucial to the success of natural resource management. In recent years, a wide variety of methods have been developed to facilitate such collaboration. Because these methods are relatively new and come from different disciplines, little attention has been paid to drawing comparisons among them. Thus, it is very difficult for potential users to sort through the increasingly large literature regarding such methods. We suggest the use of a consistent framework for comparing collaborative management methods, and develop such a framework based on five criteria: participation, institutional analysis, simplification of the natural resource, spatial scale, and stages in the process of natural resource management. We...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agriculture; Agroecosystem analysis; Collaboration; Ecosystem management; Natural resource management; Participatory rural appraisal; Rapid rural appraisal; Soft systems analysis.
Ano: 2000

Adaptive Ecosystem Management in the Pacific Northwest: a Case Study from Coastal Oregon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gray, Andrew N; U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; agray01@fs.fed.us.
Adaptive ecosystem management has been adopted as a goal for decision making by several of the land management and regulatory agencies of the U.S. government. One of the first attempts to implement ecosystem management was undertaken on the federally managed forests of the Pacific Northwest in 1994. In addition to a network of reserve areas intended to restore habitat for late-successional terrestrial and aquatic species, "adaptive management areas" (AMAs) were established. These AMAs were intended to be focal areas for implementing innovative methods of ecological conservation and restoration and meeting economic and social goals. This paper analyzes the primary ecological, social, and institutional issues of concern to one AMA in the Coast Range in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Adaptive management area; Ecosystem management; Forest ecology; Landscape ecology; Models; Monitoring; Old-growth forest; Public involvement.
Ano: 2000

Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Biggs, Reinette (Oonsie); Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; oonsie@sun.ac.za; Rhode, Clint; Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; clintr@sun.ac.za; Archibald, Sally; Natural Resources and the Environment, CSIR, South Africa; Centre for African Ecology, Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ; sarchibald@csir.co.za; Kunene, Lucky Makhosini; Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa; Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; lkunene@ufh.ac.za; Mutanga, Shingirirai S.; Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; Smutanga@ai.org.za; Nkuna, Nghamula; Public Administration, University of Limpopo, South Africa; nghamula.nkuna@ul.ac.za; Ocholla, Peter Omondi; Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Department of Hydrology, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa; peterocholla@gmail.com; Phadima, Lehlohonolo Joe; Scientific Services Division, Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, South Africa ; phadimal@kznwildlife.com.
Improving our ability to manage complex, rapidly changing social-ecological systems is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. This is particularly crucial if large-scale poverty alleviation is to be secured without undermining the capacity of the environment to support future generations. To address this challenge, strategies that enable judicious management of social-ecological systems in the face of substantive uncertainty are needed. Several such strategies are emerging from the developing body of work on complexity and resilience. We identify and discuss four strategies, providing practical examples of how each strategy has been applied in innovative ways to manage turbulent social-ecological change in South Africa and the broader region:...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Complexity; Resilience; Social-ecological systems  southern Africa; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2015

Facilitating Transitional Processes in Rigid Institutional Regimes for Water Management and Wetland Conservation: Experience from the Guadalquivir Estuary
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Amezaga, Jaime M.; Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability, University of Newcastle; jaime.amezaga@newcastle.ac.uk.
Traditional policies for water resources management and wetland conservation are often based on command-and-control approaches. The latter tend to drive the human&amp;#8211;wetland&amp;#8211;water system into pathological states, characterized by more vulnerable ecosystems and rigid institutions for governance. The overcoming of these states may rest in the development of flexible and adaptive institutional regimes that rely on adaptive governance and management. Because past factors might constrain the implementation of more flexible adaptive approaches to management, it is important to understand the historical mechanisms underlying the genesis of institutional rigidity. We first present the results of a historical analysis of Do&amp;#241;ana, which can...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Action research; Adaptive cycle; Adaptive management; Command and control; Do&amp;#241; Ana; Guadalquivir Estuary; Path dependence; Rigid institutional regimes; Water Framework Directive.
Ano: 2012

Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Huber, Robert; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; robert.huber@wsl.ch; Rigling, Andreas; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; andreas.rigling@wsl.ch; Bebi, Peter; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF; bebi@slf.ch; Brand, Fridolin Simon; Natural and Social Science Interface, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; fridolin.brand@env.ethz.ch; Briner, Simon; Agri-food and Agri-environmental Economics Group, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; briners@ethz.ch; Hirschi, Christian; Environmental Policy and Economics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; christian.hirschi@env.ethz.ch; Lischke, Heike; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL;; Scholz, Roland Werner; Natural and Social Science Interface, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; roland.scholz@env.ethz.ch; Seidl, Roman; Natural and Social Science Interface, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; roman.seidl@env.ethz.ch; Walz, Ariane; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK; Institute for Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam;; Zimmermann, Willi; Environmental Policy and Economics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich;; Bugmann, Harald; Forest Ecology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; harald.bugmann@env.ethz.ch.
Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS) for both mountain dwellers and people living outside these areas. Global change endangers the capacity of mountain ecosystems to provide key services. The Mountland project focused on three case study regions in the Swiss Alps and aimed to propose land-use practices and alternative policy solutions to ensure the provision of key EGS under climate and land-use changes. We summarized and synthesized the results of the project and provide insights into the ecological, socioeconomic, and political processes relevant for analyzing global change impacts on a European mountain region. In Mountland, an integrative approach was applied, combining methods from economics and the political and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Experiments; Interdisciplinary research; Land-use change; Modeling; Transdisciplinary research.
Ano: 2013

The Systems Approach Framework as a Complementary Methodology of Adaptive Management: a Case Study in the Urban Beaches of Barcelona
Provedor de dados: 7
The Systems Approach Framework is a methodological framework designed to enhance the efficacy of human decision-making processes within social-ecological systems with regard to sustainability. The objective of resilience adaptive management is to either maintain the system within the current regime such that the desired ecosystem goods and services continue to be delivered, or to move the system phase to a preferred regime. Although the objectives of the two frameworks are not exactly the same, there are considerable complementarities between them. Through application of the Systems Approach Framework in a case study regarding the urban beaches of Barcelona, Spain, we present some of the main findings revealed during the model construction and stakeholder...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Barcelona; Coastal management; Spain; Systems Approach Framework; Urban beach.
Ano: 2011

Using Short-Term Monitoring Data to Achieve Goals in a Large-Scale Restoration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hagen, Dagmar; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; dagmar.hagen@nina.no; Evju, Marianne; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; marianne.evju@nina.no.
To evaluate the outcome of restoration projects, an overall goal, reformulated to specific subgoals or targets, must be explicit and translated into scientifically measurable ecological attributes. Monitoring ecological attributes is necessary to assess restoration progress. Data from long-term monitoring are rarely available when restoration interventions are planned and implemented. In this study, we show how short-term monitoring data are incorporated into the planning of the large-scale restoration of a former military training area: the largest restoration project approved in Norway, covering more than 165 km&amp;#178; and intended to enhance nature conservation.   A pilot project was initiated in 2002 that removed 1.2 km of roads and tested three...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Alpine; Ecological attributes; Restoration success; Restoration target; Species richness; Vegetation cover.
Ano: 2013

Resilience in Pre-contact Pacific Northwest Social Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Trosper, Ronald L; Northern Arizona University; Ronald.Trosper@nau.edu.
If, like other ecosystems, the variable and dynamic ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest exhibited cycles and unpredictable behavior, particularly when humans were present, the indigenous societies of that region had to have been resilient in order to persist for such a long time. They persisted for two millennia prior to contact with people from the &amp;#8220;old world.&amp;#8221; The Resilience Alliance (2002) proposes that social and ecological resilience requires three abilities: the ability to buffer, the ability to self-organize, and the ability to learn. This paper suggests that the characteristics of the potlatch system among Indians on the Northwest Coast, namely property rights, environmental ethics, rules of earning and holding titles, public...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Northwest Coast; Adaptive management; Buffering disturbance; Environmental ethics; Indigenous societies; Property rights; Reciprocity; Resilience; Self-organization.
Ano: 2003

Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Raadgever, G.T. (Tom); Centre for River Basin Administration, Delft University of Technology; G.T.Raadgever@tudelft.nl; Mostert, Erik; Centre for River Basin Administration, Delft University of Technology; E.Mostert@tudelft.nl; Kranz, Nicole; Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy; Kranz@ecologic.de; Interwies, Eduard; InterSus - Sustainability Services; Interwies@intersus.eu; Timmerman, Jos G.; RWS Centre for Water Management; J.G.Timmerman@riza.rws.minvenw.nl.
River basin management is faced with complex problems that are characterized by uncertainty and change. In transboundary river basins, historical, legal, and cultural differences add to the complexity. The literature on adaptive management gives several suggestions for handling this complexity. It recognizes the importance of management regimes as enabling or limiting adaptive management, but there is no comprehensive overview of regime features that support adaptive management. This paper presents such an overview, focused on transboundary river basin management. It inventories the features that have been claimed to be central to effective transboundary river basin management and refines them using adaptive management literature. It then collates these...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Management regime; Orange; Rhine; River basin; Transboundary.
Ano: 2008

How does legacy create sticking points for environmental management? Insights from challenges to implementation of the ecosystem approach
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Waylen, Kerry A; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; kerry.waylen@hutton.ac.uk; Blackstock, Kirsty L; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; kirsty.blackstock@hutton.ac.uk; Holstead, Kirsty L; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; kirsty.holstead@hutton.ac.uk.
There are many recommendations for environmental management practices to adopt more holistic or systems-based approaches and to strengthen stakeholder participation. However, management practices do not always match or achieve these ideals. We explore why theory may not be reflected by practice by exploring experiences of projects seeking to implement the ecosystem approach, a concept that entails participatory holistic management. A qualitative inductive approach was used to understand the processes, achievements, and challenges faced by 16 projects across the British Isles. Many projects made significant progress toward their goals, yet failed to achieve fully participatory holistic management. Many of the challenges that contributed to this failure can...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Conservation; Institutional inertia; Participation; Pathways; Systems thinking.
Ano: 2015

Resources Management in Transition
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; University of Osnabrueck, Germany; pahl@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); sendzim@iiasa.ac.at; Jeffrey, Paul; School of Water Sciences, Cranfield University; p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Climate change; Interdisciplinary research; Social learning; Water resources.
Ano: 2009

Adaptive wetland management in an uncertain and changing arid environment
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Downard, Rebekah; Utah State University; rdownard8@gmail.com; Endter-Wada, Joanna; Utah State University; joanna.endter-wada@usu.edu; Kettenring, Karin M.; Utah State University; karin.kettenring@usu.edu.
Wetlands in the arid western United States provide rare and critical migratory bird habitat and constitute a critical nexus within larger social-ecological systems (SES) where multiple changing land-use and water-use patterns meet. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah, USA, presents a case study of the ways that wetland managers have created adaptive management strategies that are responsive to the social and hydrological conditions of the agriculture-dominated SES within which they are located. Managers have acquired water rights and constructed infrastructure while cultivating collaborative relationships with other water users to increase the adaptive capacity of the region and decrease conflict. Historically, water management involved diversion...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Great Salt Lake  Utah; Social-ecological systems; Water policy; Wetlands.
Ano: 2014

Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Brouwer, Stijn; VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); stijn.brouwer@ivm.vu.nl; Biermann, Frank; VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); frank.biermann@ivm.vu.nl.
The growing awareness of the complexities and uncertainties in water management has put into question the existing paradigms in this field. Increasingly more flexible, integrated, and adaptive policies are promoted. In this context, the understanding of how to effect policy change is becoming more important. This article analyzes policy making at the micro level, focusing on the behavior of policy entrepreneurs, which we understand here as risk-taking bureaucrats who seek to change policy and are involved throughout the policy-change process. Policy entrepreneurs have received a certain level of attention in the adaptive co-management literature and the policy sciences in past decades. Yet, the understanding of the actions they can take to facilitate...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Policy change; Policy entrepreneurs; Strategies; Water management; Windows of opportunity.
Ano: 2011

Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cvitanovic, Christopher; Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University; christopher.cvitanovic@csiro.au; Marshall, Nadine A.; Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO, based at James Cook University; nadine.marshall@csiro.au; Wilson, Shaun K.; Marine Science Program, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Australia; Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia; Shaun.Wilson@DPaW.wa.gov.au; Dobbs, Kirstin; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australia; kirstin.dobbs@gbrmpa.gov.au; Hobday, Alistair J.; Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO, Tasmania; alistair.hobday@csiro.au.
The rapid development of adaptation as a mainstream strategy for managing the risks of climate change has led to the emergence of a broad range of adaptation policies and management strategies globally. However, the success of such policies or management interventions depends on the effective integration of new scientific research into the decision-making process. Ineffective communication between scientists and environmental decision makers represents one of the key barriers limiting the integration of science into the decision-making process in many areas of natural resource management. This can be overcome by understanding the perceptions of end users, so as to identify knowledge gaps and develop improved and targeted strategies for communication and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Knowledge exchange; Knowledge transfer; Science impact; Science integration; Trust.
Ano: 2014

A Governing Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in the Built Environment
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mazmanian, Daniel   A.; University of Southern California; mazmania@price.usc.edu; Jurewitz, John; Pomona College; john.jurewitz@gmail.com; Nelson, Hal T.; Claremont Graduate University; hal.nelson@cgu.edu.
Developing an approach to governing adaptation to climate change is severely hampered by the dictatorship of the present when the needs of future generations are inadequately represented in current policy making. We posit this problem as a function of the attributes of adaptation policy making, including deep uncertainty and nonstationarity, where past observations are not reliable predictors of future outcomes. Our research links organizational decision-making attributes with adaptation decision making and identifies cases in which adaptation actions cause spillovers, free riding, and distributional impacts. We develop a governing framework for adaptation that we believe will enable policy,  planning, and major long-term development decisions to be made...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; California; Climate change adaptation; Governance; Planning.
Ano: 2013

The Role of Adaptive Management as an Operational Approach for Resource Management Agencies
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Barry L; USGS, Upper Midwest Enviromental Sciences Center; barry_johnson@usgs.gov.
In making resource management decisions, agencies use a variety of approaches that involve different levels of political concern, historical precedence, data analyses, and evaluation. Traditional decision-making approaches have often failed to achieve objectives for complex problems in large systems, such as the Everglades or the Colorado River. I contend that adaptive management is the best approach available to agencies for addressing this type of complex problem, although its success has been limited thus far. Traditional decision-making approaches have been fairly successful at addressing relatively straightforward problems in small, replicated systems, such as management of trout in small streams or pulp production in forests. However, this success...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem management; Flexibility; Replicated systems; Resource management agencies; Stakeholders.
Ano: 1999

The Growing Importance of Social Learning in Water Resources Management and Sustainability Science
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mostert, Erik; Delft University of Technology; E.Mostert@citg.tudelft.nl.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; European Water Framework Directive; Social learning; Stakeholder participation; Water resources management.
Ano: 2008

A Classification Framework for Running Adaptive Management Rapids
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Harm Benson, Melinda; University of New Mexico; mhbenson@unm.edu; Morrison, Ryan R.; University of New Mexico; rmorriso@unm.edu; Stone, Mark C.; University of New Mexico; stone@unm.edu.
While adaptive management (AM) is becoming a preferred natural resource management approach, the conditions necessary to engage in AM are not always present. In order for AM to work, there must be an ability to engage in experimentation and then incorporate what is learned. Just as few rivers are unequivocally either &amp;#8220;runnable&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;unrunnable&amp;#8221; by a whitewater boater, successful AM depends on a number of factors, including legal frameworks and requirements, resource allocation regimes, and existing infrastructure. We provide a classification framework for assessing the physical and institutional capacity necessary for AM using the international classification for whitewater. We then apply this classification framework...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Conceptual model; Rio Chama; River restoration.
Ano: 2013

Introduction to the Special Feature: Adaptive Management - Scientifically Sound, Socially Challenged?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Barry L; USGS, Upper Midwest Enviromental Sciences Center; barry_johnson@usgs.gov.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Ecosystem management; Experimentation; Flexibility; Implementation; Management agencies; Resources; Risk; Social aspects; Special feature; Stakeholders.
Ano: 1999

Avoiding Environmental Catastrophes: Varieties of Principled Precaution
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Johnson, Alan R; Clemson University; Alanj@Clemson.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Aldo Leopold; Ambiguity; Blaise Pascal; Daniel Ellsberg; Decision theory; Future generations; Gifford Pinchot; Intelligent tinkering; Precautionary principle; Resilience; Risk; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2012

Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico; mhbenson@unm.edu; Stone, Asako B.; Central New Mexico Community College; astone10@cnm.edu.
Adaptive management is a growing trend within environment and natural resource management efforts in the United States. While many proponents of adaptive management emphasize the need for collaborative, iterative governance processes to facilitate adaptive management, legal scholars note that current legal requirements and processes in the United States often make it difficult to provide the necessary institutional support and flexibility for successful adaptive management implementation. Our research explores this potential disconnect between adaptive management theory and practice by interviewing practitioners in the field. We conducted a survey of individuals associated with the Collaborative Adaptive Management Network (CAMNet), a nongovernmental...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative Adaptive Management Network; Natural resource management; Organizational change; Practitioners.
Ano: 2013

Unpacking &amp;#8220;Participation&amp;#8221; in the Adaptive Management of Social&amp;#8211;ecological Systems: a Critical Review
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Stringer, Lindsay C; University of Manchester; Lindsay.stringer@manchester.ac.uk; Dougill, Andrew J; University of Leeds; adougill@env.leeds.ac.uk; Fraser, Evan; University of Leeds; evan@env.leeds.ac.uk; Hubacek, Klaus; University of Leeds; hubacek@env.leeds.ac.uk; Prell, Christina; University of Sheffield; c.prell@sheffield.ac.uk; Reed, Mark S; University of Leeds; mreed@env.leeds.ac.uk.
Adaptive management has the potential to make environmental management more democratic through the involvement of different stakeholders. In this article, we examine three case studies at different scales that followed adaptive management processes, critically reflecting upon the role of stakeholder participation in each case. Specifically, we examine at which stages different types of stakeholders can play key roles and the ways that each might be involved. We show that a range of participatory mechanisms can be employed at different stages of the adaptive cycle, and can work together to create conditions for social learning and favorable outcomes for diverse stakeholders. This analysis highlights the need for greater reflection on case study research in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Democratic governance; Participation; Stakeholder involvement.
Ano: 2006

Factors in Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Co-management in British Columbia Salmon Fisheries
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pinkerton, Evelyn; Simon Fraser University; evelyn_pinkerton@sfu.ca.
Ten years of research and efforts to implement co-management in British Columbia fisheries have demonstrated that we lack neither good models nor the political will in communities to design and test local and regional institutions for successful involvement in various aspects of management. The barriers lie rather in the distrust and resistance of management agencies and the lack of broadly organized political support. The nature of the barriers and some of the elements of a successful approach to overcoming them are identified and discussed. The analysis is focused around the barriers encountered by two differently situated fishing communities or regions that have launched conservation initiatives through cooperation between local aboriginal and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal-nonaboriginal partnerships; Adaptive management; Bottom-up approach; British Columbia; Co-management; Community-based management; Fisheries; Institutional barriers; Onorhynchus spp.; Salmon; Selective fishing; Stewardship.
Ano: 1999

How Multilevel Societal Learning Processes Facilitate Transformative Change:  A Comparative Case Study Analysis on Flood Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Becker, Gert; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; gert.becker@ivm.vu.nl; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; sendzim@iiasa.ac.at.
Sustainable resources management requires a major transformation of existing resource governance and management systems. These have evolved over a long time under an unsustainable management paradigm, e.g., the transformation from the traditionally prevailing technocratic flood protection toward the holistic integrated flood management approach. We analyzed such transformative changes using three case studies in Europe with a long history of severe flooding: the Hungarian Tisza and the German and Dutch Rhine. A framework based on societal learning and on an evolutionary understanding of societal change was applied to identify drivers and barriers for change. Results confirmed the importance of informal learning and actor networks and their connection to...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Comparative analysis; Integrated flood protection; Rhine; Societal learning; Tisza; Transformative change; Water governance.
Ano: 2013

Learning in Adaptive Management: Insights from Published Practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fabricius, Christo; Sustainability Research Unit, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa; christo.fabricius@nmmu.ac.za; Cundill, Georgina; Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa; georgina.cundill@gmail.com.
Adaptive management is often advocated as a solution to understanding and managing complexity in social-ecological systems. Given the centrality of learning in adaptive management, it remains unclear how learning in adaptive management is understood to occur, who learns, what they learn about, and how they learn.  We conducted a systematic review using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and searched specifically for examples of the practical implementation of adaptive management between 2011 and 2013, i.e., excluding articles that suggested frameworks, models, or recommendations for future action.  This provided a subset of 22 papers that were analyzed using five elements: the aims of adaptive management as stated in each paper; the reported achievements...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Biological conservation; Ecosystem management; Governance; Social learning.
Ano: 2014

Linking Ecosystem Health Indicators and Collaborative Management: a Systematic Framework to Evaluate Ecological and Social Outcomes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sisk, Thomas D.; Northern Arizona University; Thomas.Sisk@nau.edu.
Collaborative management has gained popularity across the United States as a means of addressing the sustainability of mixed-ownership landscapes and resolving persistent conflicts in public lands management. At the same time, it has generated skepticism because its ecological and social outcomes are seldom measured. Evaluating the success of collaborative efforts is difficult because frameworks to assess on-the-ground outcomes are poorly developed or altogether lacking. Ecosystem health indicators are valuable tools for evaluating site-specific outcomes of collaboration based on the effects of collaboration on ecological and socioeconomic conditions. We present the holistic ecosystem health indicator, a promising framework for evaluating the outcomes of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative management; Holistic ecosystem health indicator; Northern Arizona rangeland; Outcome evaluation; Participatory approach; Socio-ecological systems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2007

Uncertainty as Information: Narrowing the Science-policy Gap
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bradshaw, G. A.; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and  USDA Forest S; bradshaw@nceas.ucsb.edu; Borchers, Jeffrey G; Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University; borcherj@ucs.orst.edu.
Conflict and indecision are hallmarks of environmental policy formulation. Some argue that the requisite information and certainty fall short of scientific standards for decision making; others argue that science is not the issue and that indecisiveness reflects a lack of political willpower. One of the most difficult aspects of translating science into policy is scientific uncertainty. Whereas scientists are familiar with uncertainty and complexity, the public and policy makers often seek certainty and deterministic solutions. We assert that environmental policy is most effective if scientific uncertainty is incorporated into a rigorous decision-theoretic framework as knowledge, not ignorance. The policies that best utilize scientific findings are defined...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Environmental policy; Global climate change; Monitoring; Risk; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2000

Resilience, Flexibility and Adaptive Management - - Antidotes for Spurious Certitude?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gunderson, Lance; Emory University; lgunder@emory.edu.
In many cases, a predicate of adaptive environmental assessment and management (AEAM) has been a search for flexibility in management institutions, or for resilience in the ecological system prior to structuring actions that are designed for learning. Many of the observed impediments to AEAM occur when there is little or no resilience in the ecological components (e.g., when there is fear of an ecosystem shift to an unwanted stability domain), or when there is a lack of flexibility in the extant power relationships among stakeholders. In these cases, a pragmatic solution is to seek to restore resilience or flexibility rather than to pursue a course of broad-scale, active adaptive management. Restoration of resilience and flexibility may occur through novel...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Active learning; Adaptive management; AEAM; Ecological resilience; Flexibility; Florida Everglades; Policy crisis; Restoration; Stability domain; Stakeholders; Surprise; Uncertainty.
Ano: 1999

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Garmestani, Ahjond S; Environmental Protection Agency, USA; garmestani.ahjond@epa.gov; Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico, USA; mhbenson@unm.edu.
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal reform by identifying the principles of reflexive law as a possible mechanism for achieving a shift to resilience-based governance and leveraging cross-scale dynamics to provide resilience-based responses to increasingly challenging environmental conditions.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Adaptive management; Environmental governance; Intermediaries; Panarchy; Reflexive law; Resilience; Resilience-based governance.
Ano: 2013

Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Engle, Nathan L; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Maryland; nathan.engle@pnl.gov; Johns, Owen R; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; orjohns@umich.edu; Lemos, Maria Carmen; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; lemos@umich.edu; Nelson, Donald R; University of Georgia; dnelson@uga.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Adaptive management; Institutional inertia; Integrated water resources management; Resilience; Trade-offs; Water governance.
Ano: 2011

Coping with persistent environmental problems: systemic delays in reducing eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Varjopuro, Riku; Environmental Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; riku.varjopuro@ymparisto.fi; Andrulewicz, Eugeniusz; National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland; eandrulewicz@mir.gdynia.pl; Blenckner, Thorsten; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; thorsten.blenckner@stockholmresilience.su.se; Dolch, Tobias; Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Germany; Tobias.Dolch@awi.de; Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina; Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; anna-stiina.heiskanen@ymparisto.fi; Steiner Brandt, Urs; Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; usb@sam.sdu.dk; Valman, Matilda; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Baltic Nest Institute, Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden ; matilda.valman@stockholmresilience.su.se; Gee, Kira; Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK ; k.gee@gmx.de; Potts, Tavis; Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, UK; Tavis.Potts@sams.ac.uk; Psuty, Iwona; National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland; iwcia@mir.gdynia.pl.
In this paper we focus on systemic delays in the Baltic Sea that cause the problem of eutrophication to persist. These problems are demonstrated in our study by addressing three types of delays: (1) decision delay: the time it takes for an idea or perceived need to be launched as a policy; (2) implementation delay: the time from the launch of a policy to the actual implementation; (3) ecosystem delay: the time difference  between the implementation and an actual measurable effects. A policy process is one characterized by delays. It may take years from problem identification to a decision to taking action and several years further for actual implementation. Ecosystem responses to measures illustrate that feedback can keep the ecosystem in a certain state...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Baltic Sea; Ecosystem delays; Monitoring of implementation.
Ano: 2014

Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pettit, Neil E.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; neil.pettit@uwa.edu.au; Naiman, Robert J.;  Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; University of Washington; naiman@uw.edu; Fry, Julia M.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; juliawrightfry@gmail.com; Roberts, J. Dale; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; dale.roberts@uwa.edu.au; Close, Paul G.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; paul.close@uwa.edu.au; Pusey, Bradley J.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; bpusey@westnet.com.au; Woodall, Geoff S.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; geoff.woodall@uwa.edu.au; MacGregor, Colin J.; College of Marine &amp; Environmental Sciences, James Cook University; colin.macgregor@jcu.edu.au; Speldewinde, Peter C.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; peter.speldewinde@uwa.edu.au; Stewart, Barbara; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; barbara.cook@uwa.edu.au; Dobbs, Rebecca J.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; rebecca.dobbs@uwa.edu.au; Paterson, Harriet L.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; harriet.paterson@uwa.edu.au; Cook, Peter; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; peter.cook@uwa.edu.au; Toussaint, Sandy; School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia;  Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; sandy.toussaint@uwa.edu.au; Comer, Sarah; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; Department of Parks and Wildlife; Sarah.Comer@DPaW.wa.gov.au; Davies, Peter M.; Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia; peter.davies@uwa.edu.au.
Accelerating environmental change is perhaps the greatest challenge for natural resource management; successful strategies need to be effective for decades to come. Our objective is to identify opportunities that new environmental conditions may provide for conservation, restoration, and resource use in a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot in southwestern Australia. We describe a variety of changes to key taxonomic groups and system-scale characteristics as a consequence of environmental change (climate and land use), and outline strategies for conserving and restoring important ecological and agricultural characteristics. Opportunities for conservation and economic adaptation are substantial because of gradients in rainfall, temperature, and land...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agriculture and conservation; Biodiversity; Climate change; Land-use change; Southwest Australia.
Ano: 2015

Adaptive Management of the Water Cycle on the Urban Fringe: Three Australian Case Studies
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Gilmour, Alistair; Macquarie University; agilmour@gse.mq.edu.au; Walkerden, Greg; Wyong Shire Council; gregw@acay.com.au; Scandol, James; University of Sydney; jscandol@bio.usyd.edu.au.
Our group at Macquarie University has run three adaptive management projects in New South Wales, Australia. Their objectives were: (1) to evaluate water cycle management strategies to minimize impacts of urban development on water quality in the Hawkesbury-Nepean basin; (2) to evaluate development planning policies to minimize water quality impacts on a series of coastal lakes; and (3) to carry out a preliminary assessment of the potential impacts of greater recreational use of Sydney water catchments.  These projects are examined to evaluate the contribution of the adaptive management approach to water cycle management on the urban fringe in New South Wales. The role of the adaptive management approach in education, as a negotiation process, and in policy...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Conservation biology; Ecosystem management; Sustainability transition; Sustainable development; Water quality; Watershed management.
Ano: 1999

Assessment and Management of Invasive Alien Predators
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Park, Kirsty; University of Stirling; k.j.park@stir.ac.uk.
Although invasive alien species have been identified as the second greatest threat to biodiversity after habitat loss, characterizing and quantifying their impacts on native species and habitats remains a fundamental problem in conservation biology. Here, I review the techniques that are currently used to assess the impact of invasive alien species on biodiversity, highlighting both their uses in invasive species ecology and their limitations in establishing a causal relationship. Adopting a hypothesis-driven experimental approach to impact assessment, and to eradication efforts through adaptive management, would benefit our ecological understanding of invasive species without delaying critical management action that could reduce the spread of invasive...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Experimental; Impact assessment; Invasive alien species; Predation.
Ano: 2004

The curious case of eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica stock status in Apalachicola Bay, Florida
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pine III, William E.; Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida; billpine@ufl.edu; Walters, Carl J.; University of British Columbia; c.walters@fisheries.ubc.ca; Camp, Edward V.; Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida; edvcamp@ufl.edu; Bouchillon, Rachel; School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Florida; rbouch@ufl.edu; Ahrens, Robert; Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida; rahrens@ufl.edu; Sturmer, Leslie; Shellfish Aquaculture Extension Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida; lnst@ufl.edu; Berrigan, Mark E.; Applied Aquaculture LLC; appliedaquaculture@gmail.com.
The Apalachicola Bay, Florida, eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) industry has annually produced about 10% of the U.S. oyster harvest. Today&amp;#8217;s simple individual-operator, hand-tonging, small-vessel fishery is remarkably similar to the one that began in the 1800s. Unprecedented attention is currently being given to the status of oyster resources in Apalachicola Bay because this fishery has become central to the decision making related to multistate water disputes in the southeastern United States, as well as millions of dollars in funding for restoration programs related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The oyster fishery collapsed in 2012, leading to large economic losses and community concerns over the current and future status of oyster...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Apalachicola; Harvest management; Oysters; Restoration.
Ano: 2015

Interactive Land-Use Planning in Indonesian Rain-Forest Landscapes:  Reconnecting Plans to Practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Wollenberg, Eva; University of Vermont; lini.wollenberg@uvm.edu; Campbell, Bruce; Center for International Forestry Research; bruce.campbell@cdu.edu.au; Dounias, Edmond; CIFOR; e.dounias@cgiar.org; Gunarso, Petrus; Tropenbos; tropenbos@telkom.net; Moeliono, Moira; Center for International Forestry Research; m.moeliono@cgiar.org; Sheil, Douglas; Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation; douglassheil@itfc.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Land- use planning; Adaptive management; Borneo; Decentralization; Local knowledge; Spatial planning; Systems frameworks.
Ano: 2009

Conservação e manejo adaptativo de pastagens nativas.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SANTOS, S. A.; CARDOSO, E. L.; TAKAHASHI, F.; LIMA, H. P. de; FLORES, C. P.; FERNANDES, A. H. B. M.; FERNANDES, F. A.; SORIANO, B. M. A.; TOMAS, W. M.; SALIS, S. M.; URBANETZ, C.; COMASTRI FILHO, J. A.; PAIVA, L. M.
Os projetos foram delineados numa visão holística em nível de fazenda que criam gado de corte em sistemas extensivos na região do Pantanal e Planalto (integradas à planície Pantaneira). Associado a esses estudos, também se busca a manutenção de bancos de germoplasma de forrageiras nativas, assim como de raças localmente adaptadas aos recursos forrageiros e estresse térmico para utilização on farm e futuros programas de melhoramento.
Tipo: Capítulo em livro técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Gestão adaptativa; Conservação de pastos nativos; Pastures; Adaptive management.
Ano: 2021
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1137288

Conservation and adaptive management of native pastures.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SANTOS, S. A.; CARDOSO, E. L.; TAKAHASHI, F.; LIMA, H. P. de; FLORES, C. P.; FERNANDES, A. H. B. M.; FERNANDES, F. A.; SORIANO, B. M. A.; TOMAS, W. M.; SALIS, S. M.; URBANETZ, C.; COMASTRI FILHO, J. A.; PAIVA, L. M.
The projects were outlined with a holistic view at the farm level of farms raising beef cattle in extensive systems in the Pantanal and plateau region (integrated to the Pantaneira plain). Associated with these studies, we seek the maintenance of germplasm banks of native forages, as well as domestic breeds locally adapted to forage resources and thermal stress for use on farm and future breeding programs.
Tipo: Capítulo em livro técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Gestão adaptativa; Conservação de pastos nativos; Adaptive management; Pastures.
Ano: 2021
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1137913

Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Cinner, J. E.; Lau, J. D.; Bauman, A. G.; Feary, D. A.; Januchowski-hartley, F. A.; Rojas, C. A.; Barnes, M. L.; Bergseth, B. J.; Shum, E.; Lahari, R.; Ben, J.; Graham, N. A. J.
Efforts to confront the challenges of environmental change and uncertainty include attempts to adaptively manage social-ecological systems. However, critical questions remain about whether adaptive management can lead to sustainable outcomes for both ecosystems and society. Here, we make a contribution to these efforts by presenting a 16-y analysis of ecological outcomes and perceived livelihood impacts from adaptive coral reef management in Papua New Guinea. The adaptive management system we studied was a customary rotational fisheries closure system (akin to fallow agriculture), which helped to increase the biomass of reef fish and make fish less wary (more catchable) relative to openly fished areas. However, over time the amount of fish in openly fished...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Social-ecological system; Adaptive management; Coral reef; Customary management; Fisheries.
Ano: 2019
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00602/71396/69846.pdf

Reference points for predators will progress ecosystem‐based management of fisheries
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Hill, Simeon L.; Hinke, Jefferson; Bertrand, Sophie; Fritz, Lowell; Furness, Robert W.; Ianelli, James N.; Murphy, Matthew; Oliveros‐ramos, Ricardo; Pichegru, Lorien; Sharp, Rowland; Stillman, Richard A.; Wright, Peter J.; Ratcliffe, Norman.
Ecosystem‐based management of fisheries aims to allow sustainable use of fished stocks while keeping impacts upon ecosystems within safe ecological limits. Both the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets promote these aims. We evaluate implementation of ecosystem‐based management in six case‐study fisheries in which potential indirect impacts upon bird or mammal predators of fished stocks are well publicized and well studied. In particular, we consider the components needed to enable management strategies to respond to information from predator monitoring. Although such information is available in all case‐studies, only one has a reference point defining safe ecological limits for predators and none has a method to...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Aichi Biodiversity Targets; Ecosystem interactions; Indirect impacts; Management strategy; Precautionary approach.
Ano: 2020
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00602/71400/69850.pdf

OECD pressure-state-response indicators for managing biodiversity: a realistic perspective for a French biosphere reserve
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Levrel, Harold; Kerbiriou, Christian; Couvet, Denis; Weber, Jacques.
Sustainability is said to be the science of integration, be it integration of scale, discipline or of stakeholders' interests. One way to integrate such diverse elements is to develop sustainable development indicators. Numerous national and international organizations have attempted to develop such indicators, among which interaction indicators are of critical importance because they enable us to link up human activities, ecological dynamics, and social goals. Among the various ways to develop such indicators, the most common ones are the pressure-state-response (PSR) indicators, as well as others coming from this framework. With realistic methodology one shall observe how PSR indicators might appear as an operational tool to face rapid social and...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Adaptive management; PSR indicators; Interaction indicators.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6545.pdf

The Merits of Loop Analysis for the Qualitative Modeling of Social-Ecological Systems in Presence of Offshore Wind Farms
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Niquil, Nathalie; Scotti, Marco; Fofack-garcia, Rhoda; Haraldsson, Matilda; Thermes, Maud; Raoux, Aurore; Le Loc'H, François; Mazé, Camille.
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Social-ecosystem modeling; Loop analysis; Adaptive management; Sensitivity analysis; Marine renewable energy.
Ano: 2021
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00682/79409/81957.pdf

On the Potential Use of Adaptive Control Methods for Improving Adaptive Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bond,   Craig A.
The paradigm of adaptive natural resource management (AM), in which experiments are used to learn about uncertain aspects of natural systems, is gaining prominence as the preferred technique for administration of large-scale environmental projects. To date, however, tools consistent with economic theory have yet to be used to either evaluate AM strategies or improve decision-making in this framework. Adaptive control (AC) techniques provide such an opportunity. This paper demonstrates the conceptual link between AC methods, the alternative treatment of realized information during a planning horizon, and AM practices; shows how the different assumptions about the treatment of observational information can be represented through alternative dynamic...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Adaptive control; Adaptive management; Dynamic programming; Value of experimentation; Value of information; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108721

Towards a Resource Economics for Adaptive Managers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Marshall,   Graham R.
Adaptive management has become one of the catchphrases of the sustainable development literature, and is referred to increasingly in natural resource policy deliberations. Its advocates argue that natural resource sustainability issues are addressed more realistically and usefully as complex adaptive systems than as mechanistic systems. Resource economics has conventionally analysed such issues mechanistically, through the method of comparative statics. This paper explores the consequent limitations of conventional resource economics in supporting adaptive management, and offers signposts towards a resource economics with fewer of these limitations.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Cost-effectiveness; Abatement costs; Transaction costs; Path dependence; Increasing returns.; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57921

Model, Model on the Screen, What's the Cost of Going Green?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dowlatabadi,   Hadi; Boyd,   David R.; MacDonald,   Jamie.
How much a policy is expected to cost and who bears the brunt of that cost play a significant role in the debates that shape regulations. We do not have a good track record of predicting costs and their ultimate distribution, but systematic reviews of past assessments have identified some of the factors that lead to errors. A wide range of expected costs of climate policy have been hotly debated, but all are likely to be wrong. This does not mean that we should continue a debate using ill-informed analyses. On the contrary, we need early small experiments to shed light on key unknowns. Environmental stewardship is a long-term challenge and an adaptive regulatory approach promises to inform policy targets and improve controls through sequential regulatory...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Cost estimation; Climate policy; Modeling; Adaptive management; Environmental Economics and Policy; D21; D82; D83; F13; O31.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10806

Dynamic Programming and Learning Models for Management of a Nonnative Species
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Eiswerth,   Mark E.; van Kooten,   G. Cornelis; Lines,   Jeff M.; Eagle,   Alison J.
Nonnative invasive species result in sizeable economic damages and expensive control costs. Because dynamic optimization models break down if controls depend in complex ways on past controls, non-uniform or scale-dependent spatial attributes, etc., decision support systems that allow learning may be preferred. We compare three models of an invasive weed in California’s grazing lands: (1) a stochastic dynamic programming model, (2) a reinforcement-based, experience-weighted attraction (EWA) learning model, and (3) an EWA model that also includes stochastic forage growth and penalties for repeated application of environmentally harmful control techniques. Results indicate that EWA learning models may be appropriate for invasive species management.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Invasive weed species; Optimal control; Adaptive management; Environmental Economics and Policy; C73; Q57.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37015

Using Numerical Dynamic Programming to Compare Passive and Active Learning in the Adaptive Management of Nutrients in Shallow Lakes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bond,   Craig A.; Loomis,   John B.
This paper illustrates the use of dual/adaptive control methods to compare passive and active adaptive management decisions in the context of an ecosystem with a threshold effect. Using discrete-time dynamic programming techniques, we model optimal phosphorus loadings under both uncertainty about natural loadings and uncertainty regarding the critical level of phosphorus concentrations beyond which nutrient recycling begins. Active management is modeled by including the anticipated value of information (or learning) in the structure of the problem, and thus the agent can perturb the system (experiment), update beliefs, and learn about the uncertain parameter. Using this formulation, we define and value optimal experimentation both ex ante and ex post. Our...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Adaptive control; Adaptive management; Dynamic programming; Value of experimentation; Value of information; Nonpoint source pollution; Learning; Decisions under uncertainty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108720

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND THE FLORIDA EVERLADES: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Milon,   J. Walter; Kiker,   Clyde F.; Lee,   Donna J.
Recently many state and federal agencies in the U.S. have embraced an ecosystems management approach to environmental protection and regulation.  This approach requires a high degree of cooperation between natural and social scientists to translate policy objectives into research hypotheses, models, and evaluation procedures to guide implementation decisions.  An adaptive procedure to guide interdisciplinary research is described and illustrated with highlights of recent progress and pitfalls from the restoration initiative for the Everglades/South Florida ecosystem.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecosystem management; Florida Everglades; Interdisciplinary research; Social science; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15543