14 Facts About Adaptive management

Adaptive management, known as adaptive resource management or adaptive environmental assessment and management, is a structured, iterative process of robust decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertainty over time via system monitoring.

Adaptive management is a tool which should be used not only to change a system, but to learn about the system.

Adaptive management needs to at least maintain political openness, but usually aims to create it.

Adaptive management can proceed as either passive or active adaptive management, depending on how learning takes place.

Adaptive management has probably been most frequently applied in Yap, Australia and North America, initially applied in fishery management, but received more broad application in the 1990s and 2000s.

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One of the most successful applications of adaptive management has been in the area of waterfowl harvest management in North America, most notably for the mallard.

Concept of adaptive management is not restricted to natural resources or ecosystem management, as similar concepts have been applied to international development programming.

CLA, an adaptive management practice, is being employed by implementing partners that receive funding from the federal government of the United States, but it is primarily a framework for internal change efforts that aim at incorporating collaboration, learning, and adaptation within the United States Agency for International Development including its missions located around the world.

Adaptive management applied to ecosystems makes overt sense when considering ever changing environmental conditions.

The flexibility and constant learning of an adaptive management approach is a logical application for organizations seeking sustainability methodologies.

See Bruss, 2012 - PhD dissertation: Human Environment Interactions and Collaborative Adaptive management Capacity Building in a Resilience Framework, GDPE Colorado State University.

Collaborative adaptive management is often celebrated as an effective way to deal with natural resource management under high levels of conflict, uncertainty and complexity.

Practitioners can expect adaptive management to be a complex, non-linear process shaped by social, political and ecological processes, as well as by data collection and interpretation.

Information and guidance on the entire adaptive management process is available from CMP members' websites and other online sources:.