Adaptive Environmental Management A Practitioner's Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Allan, Catherine. (Editor), Stankey, George H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Conservation biology.; Climatic changes.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Life Sciences.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Environmental Management.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change.
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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 manag...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents 1. Introduction
• 2. Components of Adaptive Management
• 3. Lessons learned from adaptive management practitioners in British Columbia, Canada
• 4. Using adaptive management to meet multiple goals for flows along the Mitta Mitta River in south-eastern Australia
• 5. Adaptive management of a sustainable wildlife enterprise trial in Australias Barrier Ranges
• 6. Learning about the social elements of adaptive management in the South Island tussock grasslands of New Zealand
• 7. Kuka Kanyini, Australian Indigenous adaptive management
• 8. Crisis as a positive role in implementing adaptive management after the Biscuit fire, Pacific Northwest, U.S.A
• 9. Modelling and adaptive environmental management
• 10. Lessons learned from a computer-assisted participatory planning and management process in the Peak District National Park, England
• 11. Signposts for Australian Agriculture
• 12. Environmental Management Systems as adaptive natural resource management: case studies from agriculture.-.