Sentences with phrase «adaptive management»

It aims to support improved decision making through the application of the principles of adaptive management, good governance and reporting.

The purpose of the project was to study tourist visitation in the reserve and implement adaptive management strategies to address and mitigate these impacts in order to conserve our marine natural resources.

They provide information on the status of wildlife populations and can help evaluate the effectiveness of conservation actions, thereby allowing for adaptive management.

We will apply adaptive management to continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental water use and we will consider any opportunity to diversify our range of water uses as knowledge and modelling improves.

To master ecosystem functions in order to produce decent high - quality yields, adaptive management practices are crucial: growing conditions in organic agriculture are neither optimal, static nor predictable.

Reducing the rate of decline will require a commitment to place - based adaptive management strategies which actively engage local communities across a range of representations in conservation planning.

These principles will include ensuring the strength of the program's scientific foundations, building connections within and beyond member agencies, and employing adaptive management to improve program priorities.

The operative phrase here is «in the absence of adaptive management» — this qualification is not a trivial one.

This policy document consists of a COP 13 position paper stressing that adaptive management approaches do not only require a coherent policy framework from governments, but also high quality climate information and tools for risk management through better and systematic monitoring, assessments and predictions at the regional, national and even local scales.

Wouldn't it be better to use precautionary principles and use adaptive management techniques when it comes to issues surrounding climate change?

Correlate to this is his interest in adaptive management programs that have a learning component intended to resolve uncertainty.

This monitoring data is used to inform adaptive management of watering actions to improve the outcomes from environmental watering.

The Basin Plan's environmental watering plan has been deliberately designed to support adaptive management by allowing flexibility in its implementation.

Biosketches: Kalb Stevenson is a postdoctoral scientist affiliated with the Department of Biological Sciences and Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

This study is a product of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, a collaborative initiative that supports scientific research in the Grand Canyon as an aid to decision making and management.

They looked at what climate policy makers could learn from adaptive management techniques, to create an approach to mitigation that more fully accounts for the set of risks that governments care about, is less dependent on a globally binding mandate, and which could, therefore, be a better way to preserve flexibility in climate mitigation.

The impaired functioning and heightened vulnerability of southwestern forests to large - scale disturbances increases the urgency to improve ecosystem functioning, and to measure the effectiveness and trade - offs associated with these management activities using robust adaptive management and monitoring protocols.

In addition to assisting the Office to demonstrate environmental outcomes, the LTIM Project is designed to allow adaptive management of the water holdings.

Heritage is committed to minimizing the impact of our activities on bird and bat populations by properly planning and siting our wind farms, conducting preconstruction use surveys and post-construction mortality surveys, using only state of the art technology and design, utilizing effective best management practices, and implementing adaptive management.

The EPA denied the resource consent on the basis of the uncertainties and was not convinced the applicant's proposed conditions and adaptive management scenarios would ensure sustainable development (See the executive summary of the decision here).

The classification can also assist in analysis such as the representativeness of environmental watering in terms of ecosystem types watered, for adaptive management purposes.

Presentation on Adaptive Management of Commonwealth Environmental Water in the Murray - Darling Basin

The ecosystem approach requires adaptive management to deal with the complex and dynamic nature of ecosystems and the absence of complete knowedge or understanding of their functioning.

Christopher Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on water security, river - basin resilience, groundwater depletion, the water - energy - food nexus, water reuse, transboundary adaptive management, climate resilience and science - policy dialogues.

Dr Andreotti says to date the lack of standardization of data collection has been a major limitation to combining datasets of worldwide distributed species: «We hope Identifin will offer a solution for the development of a South African and then global adaptive management plan for great white sharks.»

By a process of answering and reframing the questions, the research community can inform and increase adaptive management capacity.

The authors suggest that these results demonstrate the need to include climate sensitives into current conservation planning and to develop adaptive management strategies that accommodate shrinking and shifting geographic ranges.

Initiating conversations about adaptive management is more effective than talking about the causes of climate change.»

«Forward - looking analysis, in conjunction with adaptive management, will ensure that the CERP is based on the latest scientific and engineering knowledge and is robust enough to handle changing conditions.»

Future work will entail: (1) further delineation of management actions and the social networks associated with them, (2) building and evaluating a working model using rapid prototype methods, (3) conducting futures analyses of associated landscapes, (4) continuing to foster collaborative effort, and (5) working one - on - one with managers to evaluate model and adaptive management applicability using such tools as LCMAP (Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal).

Population viability management: ecological standards to guide adaptive management for rare species.

Simplify and standardize monitoring of Caribbean reefs and make the results available on an annual basis to facilitate adaptive management.

Anyone familiar with Mr. Savory's work and the Holistic Management Principles is aware that monitoring and adaptive management responses is essential to Mr. Savory's frame work.

The science outcomes are part of an ongoing adaptive management process that is essential to sound decision making in the NPR - A and can serve as a model for other Arctic regions facing climate and land - use uncertainty.

«If properly implemented, it would constitute an anticipatory and adaptive management approach to introducing new technologies into society, one that could potentially reduce the chances for harmful unintended consequences.»

The U.S. Geological Survey's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) is the science provider for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program.

Kacy Krieger is a Geospatial Scientist with the Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Stakeholders in the 4FRI project are developing a robust adaptive management and monitoring program so that progress towards objectives can be measured and timely adjustments to management made.