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Many rivers in south eastern Australia have been degraded because of changes to flow caused by development of water resources. Environmental flows — water managed specifically to meet environmental objectives — have been proposed as a response to these concerns. In this chapter I look at the history of environmental flow policy and action and then consider the possible role of adaptive management...
Adaptive management requires the merger of management with science to provide robust knowledge about the effect of management actions. It can also be applied as a model of collaborative learning to support effective resource management. Using the example of adaptive management of native forests affected by introduced deer in New Zealand, we set out to identify some of the tensions that become apparent...
This chapter is about making it happen. Adaptive management, that is. How do you transform a conventional management regime into one of adaptive management? How do you make it safe and rewarding to fail? And how do you sustain the processes of adaptive management over time? More specifically, we focus on leadership types, leadership processes, leadership skills and characteristics that seem to help...
‘Learn by doing’ is the mantra of adaptive management. Organisations that undertake conservation management are often challenged by high levels of uncertainty and a multiplicity of competing priorities leading to more doing than learning. Adaptive management provides a sound approach for these organisations to effectively manage uncertainty and ambiguity. However, institutional characteristics can...
Adaptive management needs people within organizations that can learn flexibly and be adaptive. Unfortunately, people are not generally very good at changing thinking or understanding or translating such change into doing things differently. Insights into the sorts of characteristics that make people adaptive can be found in educational psychology, including work on how people improve performance and...
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