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The aim of adaptive management is to modify management practices
to be more successful, based on lessons learned from previous
management actions.
Measures of success should be used for adaptive management.
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Where it has been shown that management actions have not
been effective in achieving their stated objectives, adaptive
management is required.
Examples
Of Adaptive
Management
| Management
objective |
Measures
of success show that |
Adaptive
management |
| Maintain
coral reef biodiversity by protecting bleaching-resistant
and/or resilient sites. |
Coral
reef biodiversity has not been maintained at pre-bleaching
levels. |
Reassess
and revise strategy for maintaining coral reef biodiversity
to ensure that:
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resilience to global change has been addressed through
adequate protection of bleaching-resistant/resilient
sites (see below); and
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other threats to biodiversity have been adequately
addressed (see below).
|
| |
Coral
reef communities are not in better condition at bleaching-resistant
and/or resilient sites than at control sites. |
Reconsider
selection of bleaching-resistant/resilient sites and make
new selections based on monitoring data and/or new observations
on bleaching resistance. |
| |
Other
threats have not been reduced on protected reefs. |
Implement
more effective strategies for reducing other threats to
protected reefs. |
| |
Socioeconomic
benefits of reefs have not been maintained at pre-bleaching
levels or above. |
In
consultation with primary stakeholders, consider how management
actions can be modified to improve impacts on reef users
while still achieving management objectives. |
| SOURCES |
| McClanahan et
al. 2001, Pomeroy et al. 2003, Salafsky et al. 2001 |
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