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Titre :	Adaptive management of biological systems: A review
Auteurs :	Martin J. Westgate, Auteur ; Gene E. Likens, Auteur ; David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (158 FEB 2013)
Article en page(s) :	128-139
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Adaptive Management (AM) is widely considered to be the best available approach for managing biological systems in the presence of uncertainty. But AM has arguably only rarely succeeded in improving biodiversity outcomes. There is therefore an urgent need for reflection regarding how practitioners might overcome key problems hindering greater implementation of AM. In this paper, we present the first structured review of the AM literature that relates to biodiversity and ecosystem management, with the aim of quantifying how rare AM projects actually are. We also investigated whether AM practitioners in terrestrial and aquatic systems described the same problems; the degree of consistency in how the term 'adaptive management' was applied; the extent to which

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