Adaptive management for water resources project planning

Resource Information

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Label

Adaptive management for water resources project planning

Statement of responsibility

Panel on Adaptive Management for Resource Stewardship, Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water Resources Project Planning, Water Science and Technology Board, Ocean Studies Board, Division of Earth and Life Studies

Contributor

• National Research Council (U.S.), Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water Resources Project Planning | Panel on Adaptive Management for Resource Stewardship

Subject

• United States -- Army | Corps of Engineers
• United States, Army | Corps of Engineers
• Water Resources Development
• Water resources development -- Planning -- United States
• Water resources development -- Research -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

This book reviews the Corps of Engineers' experiences to date with the concept of adaptive management and provides advice on additional and more effective implementation of this planning approach. The adaptive management concept itself is complex and evolving, but might be summarized as learning while doing. The book reviews literature on adaptive management and notes that a range of adaptive management practices present themselves for Corps projects. It is noted that there is no cookbook approach to adaptive management, and the book encourages the Corps of Engineers to continue to work with and learn from its applications of the concept. To facilitate institutional learning and to ensure that experiences are being employed across the agency, the book recommends that a Corps Center for Adaptive Management be established. The book also notes that greater involvement from the administration and Congress will be essential to successful adaptive management applications, as the Corps' efforts in this area will benefit from clarified water resources management objectives, the authority to manage adaptively, and from resources necessary for programs such as stakeholder collaboration and post-construction evaluations. -- {u01C2}c From publisher

Cataloging source

AED

Funding information

Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under

LC call number

TC423

LC item number

.A593 2004