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Minnesota DNR, personal communication ), using theĪdaptive Environmental Assessment and Management (AEAM) process Management is under way on the upper Mississippi River (S. Īdaptive management forms a highly visible element in policy planningįor major river systems, including the Columbia (Lee 1993) andĬolorado (Collier et al. Historical management experience, such as regulation of river flows. Least passing reference to the need for an adaptive approach,Įspecially in settings where mandates for ecosystem management haveīrought attention to "new" policy options with which we have little There is growing case experience in adaptive management of riparianĪnd coastal marine ecosystems. KEY WORDS: adaptive management coastal ecosystems Įcosystem management fisheries institutional barriers managementĮxperiments modeling riparian ecosystems simulation. There is much potentialįor adaptive management in the future, if we can find ways around Threatened by ecosystem restoration efforts. Species have prospered under historical management and would be In ecological values, particularly in cases in which endangered Regimes have exposed and highlighted some really fundamental conflicts Self-interest, seeing adaptive-policy development as a threat toĮxisting research programs and management regimes, rather than as an Research and management stakeholders have shown deplorable Particularly in relation to monitoring costs and risk to sensitive Experimental policies have been seen as too costly or risky, Long-term ecological response), lack of data on key processes that areĭifficult to study, and confounding of factor effects in validationĭata. Representation of cross-scale effects (from rapid hydrologic change to Modeling efforts have been plagued by difficulties in Or good experimental management plans for resolving key Many case studies in adaptive-management planning for riparianĮcosystems have failed to produce useful models for policy comparison