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Spatial education: improving conservation delivery through space-structured decision making

July 26, 2013

Adaptive management is a form of structured decision making designed to guide management of natural resource systems when their behaviors are uncertain. Where decision making can be replicated across units of a landscape, learning can be accelerated, and biological processes can be understood in a larger spatial context. Broad-based partnerships among land management agencies, exemplified by Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (conservation partnerships created through the U.S. Department of the Interior), are potentially ideal environments for implementing spatially structured adaptive management programs.

Publication Year 2013
Title Spatial education: improving conservation delivery through space-structured decision making
DOI 10.3996/082012-JFWM-069
Authors Clinton T. Moore, Terry L. Shaffer, Jill J. Gannon
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
Index ID 70047078
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center; Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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