Adaptive Management Of Natural Resources

Author : Craig R. Allen,Ahjond S. Garmestani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401796828

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Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems by Craig R. Allen,Ahjond S. Garmestani Pdf

Adaptive management is an approach to managing social-ecological systems that fosters learning about the systems being managed and remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception. Adaptive management persists because it allows action despite uncertainty, and uncertainty is reduced when learning occurs during the management process. Often termed “learning by doing”, the allure of this management approach has entrenched the concept widely in agency direction and statutory mandates across the globe. This exceptional volume is a collection of essays on the past, present and future of adaptive management written by prominent authors with long experience in developing, implementing, and assessing adaptive management. Moving forward, the book provides policymakers, managers and scientists a powerful tool for managing for resilience in the face of uncertainty.

Author : George H. Stankey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977054K

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Adaptive Management of Natural Resources by George H. Stankey Pdf

This report reviews the extensive and growing literature on the concept and application of adaptive management. Adaptive management is a central element of the Northwest Forest Plan and there is a need for an informed understanding of the key theories, concepts, and frameworks upon which it is founded. Literature from a diverse range of fields including social learning, risk and uncertainty, and institutional analysis was reviewed, particularly as it related to application in an adaptive management context. The review identifies opportunities as well as barriers that adaptive management faces. It concludes by describing steps that must be taken to implement adaptive management.

Author : Michael J. Conroy,James T. Peterson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470671740

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Decision Making in Natural Resource Management by Michael J. Conroy,James T. Peterson Pdf

This book is intended for use by natural resource managers and scientists, and students in the fields of natural resource management, ecology, and conservation biology, who are confronted with complex and difficult decision making problems. The book takes readers through the process of developing a structured approach to decision making, by firstly deconstructing decisions into component parts, which are each fully analyzed and then reassembled to form a working decision model. The book integrates common-sense ideas about problem definitions, such as the need for decisions to be driven by explicit objectives, with sophisticated approaches for modeling decision influence and incorporating feedback from monitoring programs into decision making via adaptive management. Numerous worked examples are provided for illustration, along with detailed case studies illustrating the authors’ experience in applying structured approaches. There is also a series of detailed technical appendices. An accompanying website provides computer code and data used in the worked examples. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/conroy/naturalresourcemanagement.

Author : Catherine Allan,George Henry Stankey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402096327

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Adaptive Environmental Management by Catherine Allan,George Henry Stankey Pdf

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of ‘integrated natural resource management’. Conceptually, adaptive management is simply learning from past management actions to improve future planning and management. However, adaptive management has proved difficult to achieve in practice. With a view to facilitating better practice, this new book presents lessons learned from case studies, to provide managers with ready access to relevant information. Cases are drawn from a number of disciplinary fields, including management of protected areas, watersheds and farms, rivers, forests, biodiversity and pests. Examples from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK and Europe are presented at a variety of scales, from individual farms, through regional projects, to state-wide planning. While the book is designed primarily for practitioners and policy advisors in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, it will also provide a valuable reference for students and researchers with interests in environmental, natural resource and conservation management.

Author : James Oglethorpe
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 9782831705262

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Adaptive Management by James Oglethorpe Pdf

This report examines the importance of Adaptive Management in promoting sustainable use. A wide variety of papers selected from two major conferences on Adaptive Management are presented.

Author : Damian Lowell
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : 1633213579

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Adaptive Management of Natural Resources by Damian Lowell Pdf

Our country's natural resource challenges today are more complex and more difficult to resolve than ever before. The loss of biodiversity, changing climatic patterns, spread of invasive species, alteration of landscapes, and many other problems pose serious threats to the long-term sustainability of America's natural resources. We urgently need to find new ways to address these problems. In particular, we need new methods and technologies to deal with the scale of the human footprint on the landscape, and new approaches to address the impacts of that footprint. A major challenge is to account for, and ultimately improve, our understanding of the long-term consequences of our actions. In this book, the authors use case studies to show how adaptive management can be used for both management and learning. The book focuses on practical applications in the areas of importance to Department of Interior managers climate change, water, energy, and human impacts on the landscape. Adaptive management is presented as a form of structured decision making, with an emphasis on the value of reducing uncertainty over time in order to improve management. The first half of the book covers the foundations and challenges of adaptive management, and the second half documents examples that illustrate the components of adaptive management.

Author : Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597267892

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Ecosystem Management by Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn Pdf

Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one component in a multifaceted world of decision making. And while the demands of resource management have changed greatly, natural resource education and textbooks have not. Until now. Ecosystem Management represents a different kind of textbook for a different kind of course. It offers a new and exciting approach that engages students in active problem solving by using detailed landscape scenarios that reflect the complex issues and conflicting interests that face today's resource managers and scientists. Focusing on the application of the sciences of ecology and conservation biology to real-world concerns, it emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions, and illustrates how to be more effective in that challenging arena. Each chapter is rich with exercises to help facilitate problem-based learning. The main text is supplemented by boxes and figures that provide examples, perspectives, definitions, summaries, and learning tools, along with a variety of essays written by practitioners with on-the-ground experience in applying the principles of ecosystem management. Accompanying the textbook is an instructor's manual that provides a detailed overview of the book and specific guidance on designing a course around it. Ecosystem Management grew out of a training course developed and presented by the authors for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at its National Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 20 offerings to more than 600 natural resource professionals, the authors learned a great deal about what is needed to function successfully as a professional resource manager. The book offers important insights and a unique perspective dervied from that invaluable experience.

Author : Catherine Allan,George Henry Stankey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1402096577

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Adaptive Environmental Management by Catherine Allan,George Henry Stankey Pdf

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of ‘integrated natural resource management’. Conceptually, adaptive management is simply learning from past management actions to improve future planning and management. However, adaptive management has proved difficult to achieve in practice. With a view to facilitating better practice, this new book presents lessons learned from case studies, to provide managers with ready access to relevant information. Cases are drawn from a number of disciplinary fields, including management of protected areas, watersheds and farms, rivers, forests, biodiversity and pests. Examples from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK and Europe are presented at a variety of scales, from individual farms, through regional projects, to state-wide planning. While the book is designed primarily for practitioners and policy advisors in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, it will also provide a valuable reference for students and researchers with interests in environmental, natural resource and conservation management.

Author : Damian Lowell,Williams Bryon K Stankey George H Lowell Damian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : 1633213722

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Adaptive Management of Natural Resources by Damian Lowell,Williams Bryon K Stankey George H Lowell Damian Pdf

Our country's natural resource challenges today are more complex and more difficult to resolve than ever before. The loss of biodiversity, changing climatic patterns, spread of invasive species, alteration of landscapes, and many other problems pose serious threats to the long-term sustainability of America's natural resources. We urgently need to find new ways to address these problems. In particular, we need new methods and technologies to deal with the scale of the human footprint on the landscape, and new approaches to address the impacts of that footprint. A major challenge is to account for, and ultimately improve, our understanding of the long-term consequences of our actions. In this book, the authors use case studies to show how adaptive management can be used for both management and learning. The book focuses on practical applications in the areas of importance to Department of Interior managers - climate change, water, energy, and human impacts on the landscape. Adaptive management is presented as a form of structured decision making, with an emphasis on the value of reducing uncertainty over time in order to improve management. The first half of the book covers the foundations and challenges of adaptive management, and the second half documents examples that illustrate the components of adaptive management.

Author : Carl J. Walters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1930665431

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Adaptive Management of Renewable Resources by Carl J. Walters Pdf

In this classic text first published in 1986, Walters challenges the traditional approach to dealing with the management of such renewable resources as fish and wildlife. He argues that scientific understanding will come from the experience of management as an ongoing, adaptive, and experimental process.

Author : Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : 1411342216

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Integrating Adaptive Management and Ecosystem Services Concepts to Improve Natural Resource Management by Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell Pdf

[Text of "Conclusion" section:] In summary, careful and deliberate integration of adaptive management and ecosystem services approaches has the potential to substantially improve management outcomes in a variety of contexts. Workshop discussion identified substantial costs and obstacles that need to be addressed to facilitate this integration. Indeed, fully applying the conceptual approach laid out (fig. 3) is not practically feasible, but the conceptual approach highlights ways for reorienting management to better incorporate both ecosystem service concepts and adaptive decision processes and provides a conceptual foundation for moving the integration forward. Jointly pursuing concept development and application would further this integration: continued conceptual development of the framework would help to inform application, and application in practice is needed to push and refine the framework. This report is the first to explore the explicit integration of ecosystem services and adaptive management, and it is intended as the start of a long but valuable process of learning and application development.--Provided by publisher.

Author : William Burch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000144345

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Ecosystem Management by William Burch Pdf

This book documents some of the perceptions, strategies, and actions of natural resource agencies in the twenty-first century as they seek to respond to the changed reality influencing their policies and practices. It considers some of the responses in tools, techniques, and organizational change.

Author : Derek Armitage,Fikret Berkes,Nancy Doubleday
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774859721

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Adaptive Co-Management by Derek Armitage,Fikret Berkes,Nancy Doubleday Pdf

In Canada and around the world, new concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management. This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in this emerging field, informed by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners with over two decades of experience. It also offers a diverse set of case studies that reveal the challenges and implications of adaptive co-management thinking.

Author : Edward Debrah Wiafe
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1536122815

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Adaptive Management by Edward Debrah Wiafe Pdf

The goal of an adaptive management approach is to reduce uncertainty over time by systematically incorporating learning into management. Managers of natural resources are required to design their actions as scientific experiments, monitor the outcomes, and adjust management direction in light of what the experiments revealed. This is a modern management concept that facilitates the achievement of resource management objectives.This book has enumerated cases of adaptive management elements, applications and experiments to test the efficacy of the concept in addressing resource management problems. The complexity of the conditions in which the natural resources occur - i.e., biophysical coupled with social, political and economic - warrant the application of natural resources.In the era of change in the economy, climate, population and lifestyles, the utilizers of the renewable natural resources are taken more than the supply. It is therefore necessary to apply the concept in order to ensure sustainability and efficient utilization. This book serves as a source of knowledge and experiences from renowned practitioners in the sector of entomology, zoology, fisheries, forestry and so on.This book is recommended for natural resource managers, wildlife managers, forest managers, fishery managers, graduates and under-graduate students. For the effective management of the forest, wildlife and fishery resources, the application of adaptive management is necessary.

Author : Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : OCLC:1041855935

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Integrating Adaptive Management and Ecosystem Services Concepts to Improve Natural Resource Management by Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell Pdf