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Authors:
Nick Salafsky, Richard Margoluis, Kent Redford
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Publication Number: 112
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Publication Date: 2001
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Adaptive management is growing in popularity as a concept in conservation circles. The purpose of our research was to determine how to make adaptive management a practical tool for conservation practitioners around the world. We first reviewed related concepts in fields including science and philosophy, social learning, business management, professional practice, and ecosystem management to create a research framework. We then field-tested this framework by visiting conservation projects in Zambia, Papua New Guinea, and British Columbia that all use some elements of an adaptive management approach. Our research revealed that adaptive management must be done by project managers themselves and requires establishing a clear purpose, developing an explicit model of the project site, selecting actions that maximize results and learning, developing and implementing a monitoring plan to test assumptions, analyzing data, communicating results, and then using these results to adapt and learn.
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