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Program > Program Documents > Adaptive Management (AM)
Adaptive Management (AM)
Adaptive Management (AM) is an iterative and deliberate process of applying principles of scientific investigation to design and implementation in order to better understand the ecosystem and reduce the key uncertainties and as a basis for continuously refining the program/project design and operation. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is being planned, implemented, assessed and refined using the principles of AM. Adaptive Management for CERP will aid in defining a restoration strategy that recognizes present-day solutions may be deficient for future conditions and that the future will be influenced by unanticipated internal and external events, particularly at the large-scale of the south Florida Ecosystem.
CERP teams in RECOVER have created two documents which define and provide the principles of adaptive management, explain how and when AM should be used and provide an overall strategy for integrating AM into CERP. The two documents that describe the CERP AM Program are 1) the AM Strategy Document and 2) the AM Implementation Guidance Manual.
(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 Implementation Guidance Manual is being developed for use by project teams, managers, and scientists working on CERP. The Guidance Manual is designed to be a more detailed companion document to the AM Strategy. The manual will provide detailed discussion, examples, and a step-by-step approach for each of the components and processes described in the AM Strategy. The draft AM Implementation Guidance Manual will
be released during the Winter of 2008.
Incremental Adaptive Restoration
The National Research Council (NRC, 2006) recommended incremental adaptive restoration (IAR) as a management strategy for providing the joint benefits of early restoration and new learning on the key unanswered questions affecting decision-making in CERP. Adaptive management is embraced in the CERP planning and implementation, and the CERP program is exploring opportunities to apply the IAR concept at the project and program level.
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