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Ecosystem management decision support for federal forests in the United States: a review.
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A review of the state of the art of decision support systems related to implementing ecosystem management can be found in this article, where a conceptual model of the context in which ecosystem management is expected to function is presented and a candidate for an operational ecosystem management process is described.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 1999-02-22. It has received 205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecosystem management & Ecosystem health.read more
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Fisheries and coastal governance as a wicked problem
Svein Jentoft,Ratana Chuenpagdee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the wicked problem as a governability issue and propose a framework to locate the wicked problems within the fisheries and coastal governance system, as well as examine their governability.
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Adaptive management of natural resources--framework and issues.
TL;DR: Key elements, processes, and issues in adaptive decision making are highlighted in terms of this framework, and special emphasis is given to the question of geographic scale, the difficulties presented by non-stationarity, and organizational challenges in implementing adaptive management.
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From comparative risk assessment to multi-criteria decision analysis and adaptive management: recent developments and applications.
Igor Linkov,F. K. Satterstrom,Gregory A. Kiker,C. Batchelor,Todd S. Bridges,Elizabeth Ferguson +5 more
TL;DR: A basic decision analytic framework is proposed that couples MCDA with adaptive management and its public participation and stakeholder value elicitation methods, and application to a realistic case study based on contaminated sediment management issues in the New York/New Jersey Harbor is demonstrated.
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Future research challenges for incorporation of uncertainty in environmental and ecological decision-making
TL;DR: Some of the important issues that need to be addressed in relation to the incorporation of uncertainty in environmental decision-making processes include the development of methods for quantifying the uncertainty associated with human input.
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Adaptive management for a turbulent future.
TL;DR: The conceptual underpinnings of adaptive management are simple; there will always be inherent uncertainty and unpredictability in the dynamics and behavior of complex social-ecological systems, but management decisions must still be made, and whenever possible, learning should incorporate learning into management.
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Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
TL;DR: The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, becuase of the nature of these problems as discussed by the authors, whereas science has developed to deal with tame problems.
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The Structure of "Unstructured" Decision Processes
TL;DR: Mintzberg et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a general model to describe the interrelationships among strategic decision processes in terms of 12 elements: 3 central phases, 3 sets of supporting routines, and 6 sets of dynamic factors.
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What Is Ecosystem Management
TL;DR: The histor- ical development of ecosystem management is traced, a working definition is provided, and dominant themes taken are summarized, to provide a framework for implementation.
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Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History
TL;DR: It is suggested that remarkable consistency in the history of resource exploitation is due to the following common features: wealth or the prospect of wealth generates political and social power that is used to promote unlimited exploitation of resources.