Stakeholder participation, indicators, assessment, and decision-making: applying adaptive management at the watershed scale.

ABSTRACT: Climate change, population growth, and declining federal budgets are threatening the health of ecosystems, and the services they provide. Under these changing conditions, managing landscapes and resources assumes new and unprecedented challenges. Adaptive management has been identified as a natural resource management approach that allows practitioners to incorporate change and uncertainty into decision-making through an iterative process that involves long-term monitoring and continued review and adjustment of management actions. However, the success of these efforts in watershed health relies on the collective and sustained monitoring of indicators, which is seldom studied. The purpose of this analysis is to examine (1) the practical challenge of choosing a list of indicators for long-te

SUBMITTER: Zuniga-Teran AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature