Editors:
- Handbook designed with the needs of on-ground practitioners and policy advisors in mind: Includes in-depth examples providing "how to" information
- Broad coverage on different types of natural resources and case studies at a wide range of scales
- The explicit effort to address different levels of institutional scale
- Topicality and international relevance, multidisciplinary collaboration - international scope
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Adaptive Management
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Varying Contexts
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Tools for Adaptive Management
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The Importance of People
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Conclusion
About this book
Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of ‘integrated natural resource management’. 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.
With a view to facilitating better practice, this new book presents lessons learned from case studies, to provide managers with ready access to relevant information. Cases are drawn from a number of disciplinary fields, including management of protected areas, watersheds and farms, rivers, forests, biodiversity and pests. Examples from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK and Europe are presented at a variety of scales, from individual farms, through regional projects, to state-wide planning.
While the book is designed primarily for practitioners and policy advisors in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, it will also provide a valuable reference for students and researchers with interests in environmental, natural resource and conservation management.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Catherine Allan
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Retired, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, USA
George H. Stankey
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptive Environmental Management
Book Subtitle: A Practitioner's Guide
Editors: Catherine Allan, George H. Stankey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9632-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2438-1Due: 17 June 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9632-7Published: 05 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 351
Additional Information: Jointly published with CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Topics: Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Economics, Climate Change