Adaptive Management (AM)

Adaptive Management (AM) is a structured management approach that links science to decision-making in order to improve the probability of restoration success. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is being planned, implemented, assessed and refined using the principles of AM. Founded on science, AM provides an efficient process to address risk and uncertainty inherent within ecosystem restoration by encouraging flexible plans and designs. This helps account for uncertainty by providing options for adjustment given actual future conditions to help achieve restoration goals and objectives.

CERP teams in RECOVER have created two documents which define the principles of adaptive management, and explain how to integrate AM into CERP through nine (9) AM activities. The two documents that describe the CERP AM Program are (1) the CERP AM Strategy and (2) the CERP AM Integration Guide.

(1) The CERP AM Strategy is to be used as the restoration framework for CERP and is not intended to be an artificial constraint on project implementation. The CERP AM Strategy consists of a learning process that seeks a better understanding of the south Florida ecosystem and incorporates improvements to the Plan in response to new scientific and technical information.


(2) The CERP AM Integration Guide (AMIG) was developed for use by project teams, managers, and scientists working on CERP. The AMIG is designed to be a more detailed companion document to the AM Strategy. The AMIG identifies, to the extent possible, what activities need to be addressed to implement AM at the project and program levels for CERP, how they should be implemented within the existing CERP planning process, who conducts the activities, and why they are important. Please use the following links to access the revised CERP AMIG and the comment form for providing comments.


The 45 day comment period ends 28 April 2010.

Submit Comments by E-mail:

AMIGComments@evergladesplan.org

Submit Comments by Mail:

Andy LoSchiavo
Attn: CESAJ-DR-R
P.O. Box 4970
Jacksonville, FL 32232-0019

Once comments have been received and addressed, the AMIG will undergo graphic formatting, as illustrated in the example found below. Comments are also welcome on the graphic design.

The following comment/response table was developed to address comments during an October 2008 public review of version 2.1 of the AM Guidance Manual (previous version of AMIG).

For additional information regarding the CERP AM Integration Guide, please contact:

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