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Enhanced adaptive management: Integrating decision analysis, scenario analysis and environmental modeling for the Everglades
Scientific Reports
(2013)
Abstract
We propose to enhance existing adaptive management efforts with a decision-analytical approach that can
guide the initial selection of robust restoration alternative plans and inform the need to adjust these
alternatives in the course of action based on continuously acquired monitoring information and changing
stakeholder values. We demonstrate an application of enhanced adaptive management for a wetland
restoration case study inspired by the Florida Everglades restoration effort. We find that alternatives
designed to reconstruct the pre-drainage flow may have a positive ecological impact, but may also have high
operational costs and only marginally contribute to meeting other objectives such as reduction of flooding.
Enhanced adaptive management allows managers to guide investment in ecosystem modeling and
monitoring efforts through scenario and value of information analyses to support optimal restoration
strategies in the face of uncertain and changing information.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2013
Citation Information
Matteo Convertino, Christy Foran, Jeffrey Keisler, Lynn Scarlett, et al.. "Enhanced adaptive management: Integrating decision analysis, scenario analysis and environmental modeling for the Everglades" Scientific Reports Vol. 3 Iss. 2922 (2013) p. 1 - 9 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_keisler/68/
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