CalFed/Adaptive Management Network:

Workshop on Adaptive Management

Sacramento, CA

July 11, 2001

In July 2001, EMI faculty member Steven Yaffee and EMI senior associate Sarah McKearnan facilitated a one-day adaptive management workshop in Sacramento, California. Workshop participants included staff from the CALFED Bay-Delta Program and members of the Adaptive Management Practitioners Network (AMPN).

 

As defined by members of the AMPN, adaptive management, "treats management policies and actions as experiments in order to improve management by learning from the ecosystems being affected. Adaptive management links credible science, values, and experience of stakeholders and managers for management decision making." During the workshop, members of the AMPN shared insights and past expereinces in order to expose the CALFED staff to the concepts and challenges of adaptive management.

 

Selected Materials from the Course in PDF Format

Workshop Agenda

Objectives

Pictures and Quotes from the Course

"(The workshop was) well organized. The benefits of advanced planning and preparation were very apparent. "
"Very informative and well organized. A great group of people." "I thought it was a quite useful workshop -- the setup draws the participants into meaningful discussion."

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