Integrating Adaptive Management and Ecosystem Services Concepts to Improve Natural Resource Management

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[Text of "Conclusion" section:] In summary, careful and deliberate integration of adaptive management and ecosystem services approaches has the potential to substantially improve management outcomes in a variety of contexts. Workshop discussion identified substantial costs and obstacles that need to be addressed to facilitate this integration. Indeed, fully applying the conceptual approach laid out (fig. 3) is not practically feasible, but the conceptual approach highlights ways for reorienting management to better incorporate both ecosystem service concepts and adaptive decision processes and provides a conceptual foundation for moving the integration forward. Jointly pursuing concept development and application would further this integration: continued conceptual development of the framework would help to inform application, and application in practice is needed to push and refine the framework. This report is the first to explore the explicit integration of ecosystem services and adaptive management, and it is intended as the start of a long but valuable process of learning and application development.

Genre: Business & Economics / Industries / Natural Resource Extraction (fancy, right?)