Uncertainty and adaptive management for biodiversity conservation

作者：Keith David A^*; Martin Tara G; McDonald Madden Eve; Walters Carl

来源：Biological Conservation, 2011, 144(4): 1175-1178.

DOI：10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.022

• Experimental management
• Monitoring
• Learning by doing
• Process model
• Ecosystem management
• Conflict resolution
• Management goals
• Decision making
• Conservation policy

Adaptive management of natural resources is widely supported, but in biodiversity conservation there have been few practical applications of the approach in its entirety. Some of the contributions to this special publication examine progress in the implementation of adaptive approaches into conservation policy, while others explore novel theoretical and modeling approaches that seek to accommodate the complexities of real-world applications. Several of the papers address the treatment of uncertainty in adaptive management through innovative approaches to experimentation and monitoring, use and characterisation of expert knowledge and reconciliation of differences of opinion about parameters or systems. Drawing on these contributions, we discuss the major impediments to implementing adaptive management, why adaptive management has been slow to be implemented and how this can be redressed.

• 出版日期2011-4