Adaptive Environmental Management: A Practitioner's Guide

Acknowledgements.- Author biographies.- Section I: Understanding adaptive management. 1. Introduction; G. Stankey, C. Allan.- 2. Components of Adaptive Management; R.M. Argent.- Section II: Varying contexts. 3. Lessons learned from adaptive management practitioners in British Columbia, Canada; A. Smith.- 4. Using adaptive management to meet multiple goals for flows along the Mitta Mitta River in south-eastern Australia; C. Allan et al.- 5. Adaptive management of a sustainable wildlife enterprise trial in Australia's Barrier Ranges; P. Ampt et al.- 6. Learning about the social elements of adaptive management in the South Island tussock grasslands of New Zealand; W. Allen, C. Jacobson.- 7. Kuka Kanyini, Australian Indigenous adaptive management; G. Wilson, M. Woodrow.- 8. Crisis as a positive role in implementing adaptive management after the Biscuit fire, Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.; B.T. Bormann, G.H. Stankey.- Section III: Tools for adaptive management. 9. Modelling and adaptive environmental management; T. Jakeman et al.- 10. Lessons learned from a computer-assisted participatory planning and management process in the Peak District National Park, England; K. Hubacek, M. Reed.- 11. Signposts for Australian Agriculture; J. Chesson et al.- 12. Environmental Management Systems as adaptive natural resource management: case studies from agriculture; G. Wilson et al.- 13. The adaptive management system for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - linking management planning with effectiveness evaluation; G. Jones.- Section IV: The importance ofpeople. 14. Adaptive management of environmental flows - 10 years on; T. Ladson.- 15. Collaborative learning as part of adaptive management of forests affected by deer; C. Jacobson et al.- 16. Effective leadership for adaptive management; L. Schultz, I.. Fazey.- 17. Institutionalising adaptive management: creating a culture of learning in New South Wales Parks and wildlife service; P. Stathis, C. Jacobson.- 18. Adaptive people for adaptive management; I. Fazey, L. Schultz.- Section V: Conclusion. 19. Synthesis of lessons; C. Allan, G. Stankey.-