Passive and active adaptive management: Approaches and an example
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Abstract
Adaptive management is a framework for resource conservation that promotes iterative learning-based decision making. Yet there remains considerable confusion about what adaptive management entails, and how to actually make resource decisions adaptively. A key but somewhat ambiguous distinction in adaptive management is between active and passive forms of adaptive decision making. The objective of this paper is to illustrate some approaches to active and passive adaptive management with a simple example involving the drawdown of water impoundments on a wildlife refuge. The approaches are illustrated for the drawdown example, and contrasted in terms of objectives, costs, and potential learning rates. Some key challenges to the actual practice of AM are discussed, and tradeoffs between implementation costs and long-term benefits are highlighted.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Passive and active adaptive management: Approaches and an example |
| Series title | Journal of Environmental Management |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.039 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Year Published | 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 1371 |
| Last page | 1378 |
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