Adaptive Environmental Management: A Practitioner's Guide

✍ Scribed by George Stankey, Catherine Allan (auth.), Catherine Allan, George H. Stankey (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 3-9
Components of Adaptive Management....Pages 11-36
Lessons Learned from Adaptive Management Practitioners in British Columbia, Canada....Pages 39-57
Using Adaptive Management to Meet Multiple Goals for Flows Along the Mitta Mitta River in South-Eastern Australia....Pages 59-71
Adaptive Management of a Sustainable Wildlife Enterprise Trial in Australia's Barrier Ranges....Pages 73-94
Learning About the Social Elements of Adaptive Management in the South Island Tussock Grasslands of New Zealand....Pages 95-116
Kuka Kanyini, Australian Indigenous Adaptive Management....Pages 117-141
Crisis as a Positive Role in Implementing Adaptive Management After the Biscuit Fire, Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.....Pages 143-170
Modelling and Adaptive Environmental Management....Pages 173-187
Lessons Learned from a Computer-Assisted Participatory Planning and Management Process in the Peak District National Park, England....Pages 189-202
Signposts for Australian Agriculture....Pages 203-207
Environmental Management Systems as Adaptive Natural Resource Management: Case Studies from Agriculture....Pages 209-226
The Adaptive Management System for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area — Linking Management Planning with Effectiveness Evaluation....Pages 227-258
Adaptive Management of Environmental Flows — 10 Years On....Pages 261-273
Collaborative Learning as Part of Adaptive Management of Forests Affected by Deer....Pages 275-294
Effective Leadership for Adaptive Management....Pages 295-303
Institutionalising Adaptive Management: Creating a Culture of Learning in New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Service....Pages 305-321
Adaptive People for Adaptive Management....Pages 323-338
Synthesis of Lessons....Pages 341-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-351

✦ Subjects

Conservation Biology/Ecology; Environmental Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Environmental Economics; Climate Change