Do you need an introduction to the concept of adaptive management?
Adaptive Management: A Tool for Conservation Practitioners
By Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis, 2001, Biodiversity Support Program
Adaptive management is growing in popularity as a concept in conservation circles. The purpose of the Biodiversity Support Program's research was to determine how to make adaptive management a practical tool for conservation practitioners around the world. Literature review combined with field testing 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.
English (52 pages, PDF, 1.7 MB)
An Introductory Guide to Adaptive Management for Project Leaders and Participants
By Brian Nyberg, 1999, Forest Practices Branch, British Columbia Forest Service
This guide provides an introduction to the concept of adaptive management as it is being implemented by the British Columbia Forest Service. It introduces a definition of adaptive management and outlines the six steps that must be undertaken in any adaptive management project.
English (24 pages, PDF, 125 KB)
Are you managing a project or program at the community level and looking for adaptive management guidance?
Measures of Success: Designing, Measuring and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects
By Richard Margoluis and Nick Salafsky, 1998, Island Press
This is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and development projects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation and development practitioners use principles of adaptive management to test assumptions about their projects and learn from the results.
English (382 pages, ISBN 1-55963-612-2, available from Island Press at: www.islandpress.org)
Español (386 páginas, PDF, 7.51 MB)
Plan to Succeed: A Systematic Approach to Designing and Using Program Strategies
By David Gambill, 2003
This document outlines a systematic method to help design successful program strategies. It covers the process of defining the strategy's goals and vision, objectives and activities and work plans. Project implementation, monitoring, analysis and adjustments are also covered.
English (17 pages, PDF)
Are you interested in adaptively managing a portfolio of projects or programs?
Greater than the Sum of Their Parts: Designing Conservation and Development Programs to Maximize Results and Learning
By Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis, 1999, Biodiversity Support Program
A practical guide aimed at helping conservation and development program managers and donors reflect on how the principles of adaptive management can maximize results and learning.
English (29 pages, PDF, 3,428 KB)
Español (29 páginas, PDF, 650 KB)
Biodiversity Conservation: A Guide for USAID Staff and Partners
By United States Agency for International Development (USAID/EGAT/NRM) and Associates in Rural Development, Inc. (ARD), 2003.
The goal of this guide is to provide USAID staff with basic information about designing, managing, and implementing biodiversity conservation programs or activities. It includes chapters on: defining biodiversity and its value; choosing conservation priorities and targets; selecting scale and sites; identifying threats and designing activities to address them; monitoring, evaluating and managing adaptively; creating partnerships; implementing mechanisms and partners; links to other USAID sectors and programs; and relevant treaties, legislation, and USAID regulations.
English (159 pages, available on http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/environment/.
Do you want to see case studies of adaptive management?
Measuring Conservation Impact: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Edited by K. Saterson, Richard Margoluis, and Nick Salafsky, 1999, Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
This Biodiversity Support Program symposium proceeding includes a set of eight papers that provide excellent examples of putting the theory of adaptive management into action, whereby project managers identify, collect, analyze, and use relevant data to test assumptions, adapt, and learn.
English (122 pages, PDF, 14.7 MB)
Adaptive Management: From Theory to Practice
Edited by James Oglethorpe, 2002, Sustainable Use Initiative, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
The volume examines the importance of adaptive management in promoting sustainable use. With examples from real-life situations as well as scholarly contributions, this volume is essential for gaining a detailed understanding of the real-life and academic issues surrounding adaptive management and sustainable use.
English (166 pages, ISBN 2-8317-0526-6, available from IUCN Bookstore at: http://www.iucn.org/publications/)
Do you want to know how to integrate science and policy into adaptive management plans?
Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment
By Kai N. Lee, 1993, Island Press
Using the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwestern United States as a case study, Kai Lee describes the concept and practice of adaptive management, as he examines the successes and failures of past and present management experiences. Throughout the book, the author delves deeply into the theoretical framework behind the real-world experience, exploring how theories of science, politics, and cognitive psychology can be integrated into environmental management plans to increase their effectiveness.
English (255 pages, ISBN 1-55963-198-8, available from Island Press at: www.islandpress.org)
Do you want to understand how adaptive management compares to other methods?
A Classification of Collaborative Management Methods
By Dana Blumenthal and Jean-Luc Jannink, 2000, Conservation Ecology 4(2):13
The authors suggest the use of a consistent framework for comparing collaborative management methods, and develop such a framework based on five criteria: participation, institutional analysis, simplification of the natural resource, spatial scale, and stages in the process of natural resource management. They apply this framework to six of the more commonly cited methods: soft systems analysis, adaptive management, ecosystem management, agroecosystem analysis, rapid rural appraisal and participatory rural appraisal.
English (25 pages, pdf, 234 KB)
Do you want to know how your organization can become a learning organization?
Foundations of Success Web Site
Foundations of Success www.fosonline.org
This web site includes information about Foundations of Success, a network of individuals and institutions who seek to improve the practice of conservation by learning to do conservation better. It includes information and links to resources relating to adaptive management, the development of learning portfolios, and monitoring and evaluation.
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