Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 8
Ecosystems, Adaptive Management
Craig R. Allen, Joseph J. Fontaine, and Ahjond S. Garmestani
Glossary
Adaptive governance Institutional and political frameworks designed to adapt
to changing relationships between society and
ecosystems, institutional frameworks that enable adaptive
management, and the facilitation of learning from adap-
tive management to policy.
Adaptive management A systematic process of natural resource management
whereby management actions are treated as experiments
to
increase
learning
and
improve
subsequent
management.
Natural resource
management
The management of natural resources including land,
water, plants, and animals to meet societal goals, includ-
ing conservation and exploitation.
Resilience
The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance without
altering states (undergoing a regime shift); a measure of
the amount of disturbance a system can tolerate before
collapsing.
