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Adaptive Management is systematic, practical
approach to improving resource management policies and practices.
It provides a structured process for learning which management actions
best meet management objectives, and for reducing resource
management uncertainty. In its most effective form, an experimental
approach is used to test clearly formulated hypotheses about important,
but uncertain, components of a system. This approach follows the
six basic steps shown in the diagram below.
 Adaptive
Management has been the cornerstone of ESSA's approach for the past
22 years. Since our inception in 1979, we have been helping clients
implement various aspects of Adaptive Management to solve resource
management problems. We also provide customised training workshops
in Adaptive Management in both English and Spanish.
If you and your organisation are interested or
involved in aquatic or terrestrial
resource management, then you may find tremendous benefit from learning
more about Adaptive Management, and how it can be applied.
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Are you uncertain about whether
you are meeting your resource management objectives? |
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Are you having difficulty deciding
the best way to meet these objectives? |
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Are you uncertain as to the
environmental outcomes of some of your management actions? |
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Do stakeholders disagree about
the outcomes of management actions? |
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Do stakeholders disagree about
which are the 'best' management alternatives? |
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Do you have difficulty deciding,
with confidence, among alternative management actions? |
If you answered "yes" to any of these
questions, then Adaptive Management can help. While Adaptive Management
is not the 'universal hammer to all environmental nails,' it should
be a critical part of the toolbox used by managers and stakeholders
to resolve difficult problems.
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