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Scientific Adaptive Management

Definition

Management of environmental problems that is conducted in a scientific manner with the dual goals of improving the current condition and reducing uncertainty for future management.

 

SAM is not simply trial and error

Design managment manipulations

  1. that are within dimensions knowledge, control and values
  2. statement of management objectives as hypotheses
  3. using models
  4. management, monitoring and adaptation

 

Three tenents of SAM

1. experimentalism

method of experience

no ideologies (which are pre-experiential)

2. multiscalar analysis

from small to large

cause-and-effect to complex holistic

3. place sensitivity

each place is unique

humans acting as major agents of change in the landscape