Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems

Sendzimir, J., Magnuszewski, P., & Gunderson, L. (2018). Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems. In: Riverine Ecosystem Management. pp. 301-324 Cham: Springer. 10.1007/978-3-319-73250-3_16.

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Abstract

If ongoing change in ecosystems and society can render inflexible policies obsolete, then management must dynamically adapt as a counter to perennial uncertainty. This chapter describes a general synthesis of how to make decision-making more adaptive and then explores the barriers to learning in management. We then describe how one such process, known as adaptive management (AM), has been applied in different river basins, on which basis we discuss AM’s strengths and limitations in various resource management contexts.

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