The process of implementing policy decisions incrementally so that scientists can make changes if they do not achieve the desired results. It is a process similar to a scientific experiment that tests predictions and assumptions in management plans. Experience and new scientific findings are used as the basis to improve resource management practices and future planning.
adaptive management rigorously combines management, research, monitoring, and means of changing practices so that credible information is gained and management activities are modified by experience.
A management plan designed from the outset to "learn by doing," and to actively test hypotheses and adjust treatments as new information becomes available.
A process that allows the development of a plan when some degree of biological and socioeconomic uncertainty exists. It requires a continual learning process, a reiterative evaluation of goals and approaches, and redirection based on an increased information base and changing public expectations.
Operational decisions principally for managing entities that are influenced by climate variability and change.
A scientific policy that seeks to improve management of biological resources, particularly in areas of scientific uncertainty, by viewing program actions as vehicles for learning. Projects are designed and implemented as experiments so that even if they fail, they provide useful information for future actions. Monitoring and evaluation are emphasized so that the interaction of different elements of the system are better understood.
A type of natural resource management in which decisions are made as part of an ongoing science-based process. Adaptive management involves testing, monitoring, and evaluating applied strategies, and incorporating new knowledge into management approaches that are based on scientific findings and the needs of society. Results are used to modify management policy, strategies, and practices.
A process for implementing policy decisions as an ongoing activity that requires monitoring and adjustment. Adaptive management applies scientific principles and methods to improve resource management incrementally as managers learn from experience and as new scientific findings and social changes demand.
a cyclical process (plan, act, monitor, assess, repeat) in which managers treat actions as experiments, from which they improve management actions.
An iterative approach to managing ecosystems, where the methods of achieving the desired objectives are unknown or uncertain. In the context of wetland mitigation, a formalized process for the interactive management of a mitigation project.
A process that integrates project design, management and monitoring to provide a framework for testing assumptions, adaptation and learning.
changing program strategies to reflect findings of monitoring and research to insure that resources are invested in methods that are achieving greatest success.
Management that changes in anticipation of, or in response to, new or altered circumstances during the life of a project.
A dynamic approach to forest management in which the effects of treatments and decisions are continually monitored and used to modify management on a continuing basis to ensure that objectives are being met (SAF)
A flexible and dynamic management approach which is modified when new data is acquired or with a change in circumstances.
The process of gathering and using scientific research to evaluate forest management decisions and practices. Research and monitoring provide feedback to quickly validate or improve practice on the ground.
a learning approach to management that recognizes substantial uncertainties in managing forests and incorporates into decisions experience gained from the results of previous actions. Agreement-in-Principle – Alberta's notice (not approval) to the organization that what has been prepared is acceptable at that point. The component is subject to review at a later date and may require revision if supporting documentation is not provided.
In regard to a marine fishery, it means a scientific policy that seeks to improve management of biological resources, particularly in areas of scientific uncertainty, by viewing program actions as tools for learning. Actions shall be designed so that even if they fail, they will provide useful information for future actions. Monitoring and evaluation shall be emphasized so that the interaction of different elements within the system can be better understood.
A structured, iterative approach that recognizes that the information used in making decisions is imperfect and that, as decisions are made, a process is in place to gain better information and adjust the implemented action accordingly.
Implementing policy decisions as an ongoing process that requires monitoring the results. It applies scientific principles and methods to improve resource management activities incrementally as the managers and scientists learn from experience and new scientific findings and adapt to social changes and demands.
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 implementing management actions explicitly designed to generate information useful for evaluating alternative hypotheses about the system being managed.
a) The process of implementing policy decisions as scientifically driven management experiments that test predictions and assumptions in management plans, and using the resulting information to improve the plans. ( FEMAT, IX-1) b) A continuing process of action-based planning, monitoring, researching, evaluating, and adjusting with the objectives of improving implementation and achieving the goals of the selected alternative. ( FSEIS Feb. 94, Glossary-1) c) A type of natural resource management that implies making decisions as part of an on-going process. Monitoring the results of actions will provide a flow of information that may indicate the need to change a course of action. Scientific findings and the needs of society may also indicate the need to adapt resource management to new information. ( FS People's Glossary of Eco Mgmt Terms)
A general approach to policy-making in the presence of uncertain developments (technology is an example.) It would say that you always need to assess the risks in comparison to the expected benefits.
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. In this way, decision-making simultaneously maximizes one or more resource objectives and, either passively or actively, accrues information needed to improve future management.