Adaptive Management and Decision Process Sample Clauses

Adaptive Management and Decision Process. 1. Overview This Fish Passage Plan will be implemented according to the principles of adaptive management. Adaptive management involves synthesizing existing knowledge, exploring alternative actions, and making explicit forecasts about their outcomes. Carefully designed management actions and monitoring programs are utilized to generate reliable feedback and clarify the reasons underlying outcomes. Actions and objectives are then adjusted based on this feedback and improved understanding. In addition, decisions, actions, and outcomes are carefully documented and communicated to others, so that knowledge gained through experience is passed on, rather than being lost when individuals move or leave the effort (Xxxxxx 1999). The first essential characteristic of adaptive management is that a direct feedback loop exists between science and management. This allows for management and policy decisions to be modified in light of new scientific information. The second essential characteristic of adaptive management is that management includes an experimental component. It is the combination of these two characteristics that distinguishes adaptive management from either traditional science or incremental “learning as you go” (Xxxxxxx 1993). In traditional management, research is ordinarily separated from actual resource management. Rarely is there an explicit procedure governing how the emerging science will be utilized to influence management. Providing a link between science and management requires an inventory, monitoring, and evaluation program. Monitoring is the collection of data used to evaluate progress toward meeting objectives, which in turn can be used to adjust management policies. It is the feedback part of monitoring that distinguishes it from inventory (Xxxxxxxxx et al. 1983). Monitoring can be considered as both an activity (measuring) and a process (evaluation and refinement). Evaluation is highly dependent on proper conceptual design. It requires clearly defined objectives so proper measurements can be made that evaluate progress toward meeting the stated objectives. The implicit assumption is that the information gained from experimentation will be used to meet management objectives. Only in this manner can science be linked with management (Xxxxxxx 1993). Adaptive management requires the definition of clear objectives and the development of specific decision criteria in order to evaluate different policy options. Development of decision criteria i...
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