Title Adaptive environmental management : a practitioner's guide / Catherine Allan, George H. Stankey, editors

Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer ; Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction -- Components of adaptive management -- Lessons learned from adaptive management practitioners in British Columbia, Canada -- Using adaptive management to meet multiple goals for flows along the Mitta Mitta river in south-eastern Australia -- Adaptive management of a sustainable wildlife enterprise trial in Australia's barrier ranges -- Learning about the social elements of adaptive management in the south island tussock grasslands of New Zealand -- Kuku Kanyini, Australian indigenous adaptive management -- Crisis as a positive role in implementing adaptive management after the biscuit fire, pacific northwest, U.S.A -- Modelling and adaptive environmental management -- Lessons learned from a computer-assisted participatory planning and management process in the peak district national park, England -- Signposts for Australian agriculture -- Environmental management systems as adaptive natural resource management : Case studies from agriculture -- The adaptive management system for the Tasmanian wilderness world heritage area -- linking management planning with effectiveness evaluation -- Adaptive management of environmental flows -- 10 years on -- Collaborative learning as part of adaptive management of forests affected by deer -- Effective leadership for adaptive management -- Institutionalising adaptive management : Creating a culture of learning in New South Wales parks and wildlife service -- Adaptive people for adaptive management -- Synthesis of lessons Summary 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. This book presents lessons learned from case studies, to provide managers with access to relevant information Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Adaptive natural resource management. Adaptive natural resource management -- Case studies Natural resources -- Management -- Case studies Nature conservation -- Case studies Sustainable agriculture. Conservation of natural resources. Agriculture -- methods Conservation of Natural Resources sustainable agriculture (discipline) SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. Sciences de la vie. Biomédecine. Conservation of natural resources Adaptive natural resource management Natural resources -- Management Nature conservation Sustainable agriculture Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book Author Allan, Catherine, 1960- Stankey, George H. ISBN 9781402096327 1402096321

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