Adaptive management

Craig R. Allen; Ahjond S. Garmestani

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9682-8_1

Adaptive management

Craig R. Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	1-10
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9789401796828
ISBN (Print)	9789401796811
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9682-8_1
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

Keywords

Adaptive management
Ecology
Natural resource management
Resilience
Uncertainty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Environmental Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Engineering
General Social Sciences

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