Adaptive management
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Abstract
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management where knowledge is incomplete, and when, despite inherent uncertainty, managers and policymakers must act. Unlike a traditional trial and error approach, adaptive management has explicit structure, including a careful elucidation of goals, identification of alternative management objectives and hypotheses of causation, and procedures for the collection of data followed by evaluation and reiteration. The process is iterative, and serves to reduce uncertainty, build knowledge and improve management over time in a goal-oriented and structured process.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Adaptive management |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-94-017-9682-8_1 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Coop Res Unit Seattle |
| Description | 10 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Adaptive management of social-ecological systems |
| First page | 1 |
| Last page | 10 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |