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	Adaptive management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adaptive management, or Adaptive resource management (ARM), is an iterative process of optimal decision-making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing that uncertainty over time via system monitoring.
		Adaptive management was further developed at IIASA in Vienna, Austria, while C. Holling was director of the Institute.
		Adaptive management was initially applied in fishery management, but received more broad application in the 1990s, especially in forestry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adaptive_management (350 words)

	Adaptive management - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Adaptive management is an approach to ecological management.
		Adaptive environmental management is based upon the premise that managed ecosystems are complex and inherently unpredictable.
		Adaptive environmental assessment and management has the original name given to this approach which was developed by the ecologists C.S. Holling and Carl J. Walters at the University of British Columbia, in Canada in the 1970s.
	education.music.us /A/Adaptive-management.htm (504 words)

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		Adaptive management is an explicit and analytical process for adjusting management and research decisions to better achieve management objectives; and this process should be quantitative wherever feasible.
		Adaptive management and decision support systems are gathering increased attention in natural resource management because three important trends seem to be changing the way managers and biologists must address resource issues.
		Managers must still make the actual decisions on the ground, but decision support systems allow them to do so with greater confidence that the decisions are based on all the currently available knowledge, and that the decisions take correct account of the consequences of uncertainty.
	www.esg.montana.edu /esg/adaptive_mgmt_1.html (1284 words)

	Can science-based resource management work?
		Although such management, known as adaptive management, has been discussed by land managers and touted by public lands scholars for at least 20 years, the concept has been more talked about than implemented.
		Adaptive management also calls for conducting ongoing experiments on-site to determine how various environmental conditions or management activities affect the natural resources in question, with an eye to incorporating the scientific findings into management activities.
		One of the challenges of public lands management is managing the land for many uses.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/uoa-csr021506.php (763 words)

	Coastal Restoration - Adaptive Management
		One of the most significant developments in aquatic system restoration and project management has been the increased use of adaptive management principles to assess the success of a restoration project at a particular point in time based on monitoring-program results, and then to make adjustments that are likely to improve overall project success.
		Restoration project managers should be encouraged to practice preplanning and to cultivate advanced awareness of potential problems and their solutions; as a result, stakeholders can be asked in a timely manner to set aside funds for responding to project setbacks, thereby maintaining the restoration schedule.
		Adaptive management principles directly address this type of situation and are applicable across the entire spectrum of coastal habitats that could be considered for restoration, including the water column, hard and soft bottom, coral reefs, oyster beds, macroalgae and kelp, soft and rocky shoreline, submerged aquatic vegetation, marsh, mangroves, deep-water swamps, riverine forests, and streams.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /coastal/management/management.htm (2423 words)

	EPA > Step 5: Adaptive Management: Watershed Analysis and Management (WAM) Guide for Tribes
		Adaptive management is the process by which new information about the health of the watershed is incorporated into the watershed management plan.
		Adaptive management is a challenging blend of scientific research, monitoring, and practical management that allows for experimentation and provides the opportunity to “learn by doing.” It is a necessary and useful tool because of the uncertainty about how ecosystems function and how management affects ecosystems.
		The design of the adaptive management plan is best accomplished in cooperation with policy-level personnel with the authority to make a commitment of resources and technical personnel who can help identify scientific issues and evaluate monitoring data.
	www.epa.gov /owow/watershed/wacademy/wam/step5.html (1354 words)

	SEAMG
		Wildlife managers must identify and select management actions that are most likely to achieve their objectives but are often faced with various sources of uncertainty.
		For example, a manager may be responsible for manipulating habitat over a relatively large area (say, in the interest of wildlife conservation), while a researcher determines the effects of the same set of habitat manipulations in a small subset of the managed area.
		In adaptive decision making the sequence of monitoring, assessment, and implementation is continuously repeated so that managers and researchers may explore the consequences of alternative management actions (which allows learning to occur) and select actions that are consistent with the overall set of management objectives.
	cars.er.usgs.gov /SEAMG/seamg.html (832 words)

	Bibliography: Adaptive Ecosystem Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Adaptive management is the principle that environmental restoration initiatives--in this case fish and wildlife recovery measures--may be designed as experiments to help resolve key uncertainties about the interaction of humans and the ecosystem, and lead to better restoration programs.
		Adaptive management is the systematic acquisition and application of reliable information to improve natural resource management over time.
		Adaptive optimization is developed in terms of the optimal control of incompletely understood populations, with the expected value of perfect information measuring the potential for improving control through learning.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~vasishth/Adaptive_Mgmt-biblio.htm (5497 words)

	Secret Ravine Adaptive Management Plan
		Adaptive management study 12: Assess temperature data to determine when and where there are unhealthy temperatures, and to guide further temperature studies.
		Adaptive management study 13: Assess water quality data to determine if contamination is present at critical times in the salmonid life cycle.
		Adaptive management study 14: Assess stormwater quality to determine what pollutants are present, and if they are at a level unhealthy to salmonids.
	www.drycreekconservancy.org /SRAMP/sr2.html (14756 words)

	Adaptive management
		Adaptive Management is a system for evaluating and improving habitat management practices.
		Wildlands utilized the flexibility of adaptive management to modify the land management plan and bring in goats to eat the unwanted vegetation.
		Wildlands’ commitment to adaptive management shows in the background of the company’s land management personnel, most of whom have a background in biology, natural resources or ecology.
	www.wildlandsinc.com /adaptive.htm (209 words)

	HP Feature Story: Adaptive Management: Running IT as a Business (November 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Adaptive management is key to the HP delivery of the total vision.
		Adaptive management is the integration of people, process and technology to run IT as a business and automate the dynamic link between business and IT.
		Management software provides this virtual operating system for the data center and beyond, abstracting resources and managing resources on the fly as the business demands.
	www.hp.com /hpinfo/newsroom/feature_stories/2003/03adaptivemgmt.html (1433 words)

	GCMRC - About GCMRC - Adaptive Management
		The process begins with the identification of a series of management objectives defined by stakeholders and managers of the system and involves a feedback loop between the management action and the effect of that action on the system.
		It is an iterative process, based on a scientific paradigm that treats management actions as experiments subject to modification, rather than as fixed and final rulings, and uses them to develop an enhanced scientific understanding about whether or not and how the ecosystem responds to specific management actions.
		That is, if managers wish to attempt to manage a system for a given outcome that is not feasible, it is important that they understand that at the outset.
	www.gcmrc.gov /about/management/management.htm (357 words)

	Adaptive Management
		Adaptive management has the attributes of being flexible, encouraging public input, and monitoring the results of actions for the purpose of adjusting plans and trying new or revised approaches.
		It established ten adaptive management areas, but the Record of Decision directed that adaptive management be applied on all forest lands, not just the adaptive management areas (Bormann et al.
		"Adaptive management is an inductive approach, relying on comparative studies that blend ecological theories with observation and with the design of planned interventions in nature and with the understanding of human response processes" (Gunderson, Holling, and Light, 1995, p.
	oregonstate.edu /instruction/anth481/ectop/ecadm.html (995 words)

	Invasive Plant Management
		Ecologically-based invasive plant management requires an understanding of the biology of the plants and ecology of the system while focusing on developing and maintaining desired plant communities.
		The first step in weed management planning is to identify land management goals, desired plant communities, and weed management objectives.
		Monitor your management actions and then evaluate your results to determine whether your weed management objectives are being achieved.
	www.weedcenter.org /management/mgmt_overview.html (697 words)

	Waterfowl \| Adaptive Harvest Management (AHM)
		The adaptive approach explicitly recognizes that the consequences of hunting regulations cannot be predicted with certainty, and provides a framework for making objective decisions in the face of that uncertainty.
		Thus, adaptive management relies on an iterative cycle of monitoring, assessment, and decision making to clarify the relationships among hunting regulations, harvests, and waterfowl abundance.
		It is adaptive in the sense that the harvest strategy "evolves" to account for new knowledge generated by a comparison of predicted and observed population sizes.
	www.agfc.state.ar.us /hunting/waterfowl_section/ahm.html (660 words)

	Adaptive Management
		Adaptive Management attempts to deal with our limitations or inability to assess impacts to the environment as a means to produce and deliver better environmental outcomes such as strategies, goals and restoration projects.
		Adaptive Management emphasizes a systems approach and communication as the way to achieve a better, shared understanding of a problem.
		The concept of "adaptive management" has grown from this frustration with disparate scientific knowledge, the lack of integration between disciplines and the inability to communicate effectively with decision makers.
	www.riverinstitute.org /cfars_web_pages/adaptive.html (661 words)

	WSDOT - Environmental Services - Wetland Adaptive Site Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Management action is carried out to meet the performance criteria.
		Monitoring and responsive site management are both integral to the success of an effective adaptive management strategy.
		Site managers use monitoring results and recommendations, best available science, and their professional judgment to decide which management activities are best to take at each mitigation site.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /environment/biology/wet_adaptivesite.htm (469 words)

	Adaptive Management Home Page [Forest Practices Branch - BC Forest Service]
		The active co-operation of resource managers and scientists from our agency, the forest industry, and other government agencies is crucial to any success adaptive management might have on Crown forest and range lands; as is the support of public groups and individuals.
		The key practitioners of adaptive management, in our opinion, should be the local resource managers in government and industry who make decisions about managing forestry, range, recreation, wildlife and fish; and who are responsible for implementing those decisions on the ground.
		The BC Forest Service adaptive management initiative includes several components, including educational materials for our staff and others, training programs, advice and support for various project teams, and development of a set of "pilot" or demonstration projects where adaptive management is being applied to local issues.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hfp/amhome/amhome.htm (294 words)

	Adaptive Management
		It challenges the research community to explore management questions by experiments with management, instead of simply researching the components of managed systems, as it is usually difficult to generalise from available detailed research to an holistic perspective.
		Adaptive management framework for catchment and coastal management decision-making (paper)
		The work was geared toward enhancing the adaptive management capacity of the stakeholders in their resource-use systems.
	www.urbanwater.info /Organisation/AdaptiveManagement.cfm (496 words)

	Conservation Ecology: The multiple use of tropical forests by indigenous peoples in Mexico: a case of adaptive ...
		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.
		Managed or “artificial” forests are masses of vegetation where useful non-native species are introduced and manipulated.
		Appropriately managed in terms of the economic opportunities and environmental constraints, this MUS tends to be enduring in the long term.
	www.ecologyandsociety.org /vol7/iss3/art9/main.html (7333 words)

	Adaptive collaborative management
		Despite the time and money that have been invested in forest management over the past few decades, forests are still neglected, degraded and cleared while the livelihoods of the people who use them regularly, especially poor and politically less powerful groups, have not improved.
		Adaptive and collaborative management (ACM) is an innovative approach pioneered by CIFOR to managing forests that seeks to enhance the equity and effectiveness of management.
		Taken together, applying these approaches to decision-making and planning in forest management are expected to produce changes in forest management practice and policies that in turn improve the benefits, and equity of distribution of benefits, people get from forests and the quality of the forest system itself.
	www.cifor.cgiar.org /docs/_ref/findoutabout/acm (1419 words)

	Definitions of Adaptive Management
		Adaptive management has been defined in various ways since its development in the early 1970s.
		Adaptive management is a systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs.
		Its most effective form–"active" adaptive management–employs management programs that are designed to experimentally compare selected policies or practices, by evaluating alternative hypotheses about the system being managed.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hfp/amhome/Amdefs.htm (438 words)

	Citizen Science Bibliography
		This paper covers the use of adaptive management techniques to re-establish salmon and steelhead trout populations decimated by hydropower development.
		This paper considers the application of adaptive management to hydropower operations at Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
		This paper reports on workshop attended by catchment managers and scientists focussed on an integrated description of the various roles of the riparian zone for the North Johnstone River catchment.
	www.coastal.crc.org.au /bibliography/list111.asp?theme=2&category=4&subcategory=11 (1085 words)

	Adaptive Management, Advanced Technologies, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Refuge managers find it very challenging to develop annual schedules of management practices reflecting the actual dynamics of their wetland systems because almost no information exists about the ecology of montane wetlands in the Northern Rockies.
		One requirement for managing montane wetlands is a thorough understanding of the uncertainties related to various parameters.
		The overall goal of this research is to provide decision support that will allow refuge managers to simulate water level management and ecological response to this management as a way to explore the most satisfactory ways of reaching long term refuge wetland objectives, while satisficing short term needs.
	swan.msu.montana.edu /wetlands/preproposal/montane_wetlands_preproposal.html (2041 words)

	Adaptive Management Systems
		Specifically, it is the integration of design, management, and monitoring to systematically test assumptions in order to be able to adapt and learn.
		In particular, we work with partner organizations to develop adaptive management systems that help them to conceptualize, design, manage, monitor, analyze, communicate, and adapt their projects to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
		E-Adaptive Management Software — In collaboration with the Conservation Measures Partnership, FOS is working with Benetech, a nonprofit technology firm, to create innovative, user-friendly computer software and supporting training materials that will guide practitioners through the adaptive management process.
	www.fosonline.org /Site_Page.cfm?PageID=5 (562 words)

	HP Press Kit: HP Adaptive Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HP’s Adaptive Management is a vital new approach that combines people, processes and technology to run IT as a business and automate the dynamic link between business and IT.
		A critical component of an Adaptive Enterprise, the HP Adaptive Management solutions and services introduced today allow CIOs to translate business processes into the underlying IT, reduce costs, improve service levels and move IT supply where business demand is and when it is needed.
		Extending its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, HP today introduced more than 40 new management services and software products to help customers integrate heterogeneous technologies, cut information technology operations costs by up to 30 percent and increasingly automate responsiveness to real-time business demands.
	www.hp.com /hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2003/amlaunch/index.html (334 words)

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