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Adaptive Management Publications
Statistical
Methods for Adaptive Management Studies
Adaptive management
is a systematic approach for continually improving management
policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of
operational programs. This handbook provides an overview
of principles and methods for approaches to experimentation
and data analysis for adaptive management studies. Topics
include design of experiments, non-experimental studies,
retrospective studies, measurement and estimates, errors
of inference, Bayesian statistics, and decision analysis.
The handbook is targeted at resource managers, researchers,
and biometricians.
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An Introductory
Guide to Adaptive Management for Project Leaders and Participants
This guide provides an introduction
to the concept of adaptive management as it is being implemented
by the BC Forest Service. It introduces a definition of
adaptive management and outlines the six steps that must
be undertaken in any adaptive management project.
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Adaptive
Management of Forests in British Columbia
Issues surrounding
forest management are ecologically, socially, and economically
complex. This complexity, together with limited understanding
of forest ecosystems and the unpredictable nature of many
natural events, contributes to uncertainty about outcomes
of management decisions. Changing social values and goals
further increase uncertainty and contribute to controversy.
Faced with these issues, people are asking questions such
as: What is the best way of meeting management objectives?
Are these objectives consistent with societal goals? How
can we adapt management practices and plans to accommodate
changes in values and goals?
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Applying
Adaptive Management in British Columbia's Forests
Adaptive management
offers forest managers the potential to learn rapidly from
the results of operational policies and practices as they
are being implemented, and thus to keep pace with the rapidly
changing demands of industrial and public clients. Despite
published examples of the successes of adaptive management
in other fields, it has seldom been applied rigorously to
forestry issues. The BC Forest Service is now developing
a province-wide initiative that aims to establish adaptive
management as a standard approach to situations in which
the optimal policies or practices are uncertain.
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Annotated
Bibliography: Adaptive Management References
This page provides
a few references to books and papers that discuss the application
of adaptive management to resource management challenges.
The bibliography was last updated in 1997.
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Adaptive Management
- Learning from our Forests (Brochure)
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JEM
- Journal of Ecosystems Management
Adaptive Management
Newsletter
in PDF format - Summer
2000
Adaptive Management
Newsletter
in PDF format - Spring
1997
Adaptive Management
Newsletter
in PDF format - Summer
1997
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