Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
17 - Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Forest management has seen a gradual transition from focusing on few to focusing on multiple values. Early forestry operations focused on production of timber. As the need for sustainability of the timber resource became apparent, foresters began developing production and regrowth strategies that focused on perpetuating the fiber source. This approach of harvest and regeneration, with a focus on trees, became known as sustained yield forestry. Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century there emerged a growing societal demand that forests provide not only fiber, but also ecological and social values. So began the transition from sustained yield forestry (with a focus primarily on economics) to sustainable forest management (with a focus on economic, ecological, and social values). Embedded within this transition from sustained yield to sustainable forest management was the concept of adaptive management.
Adaptive management is a “formal process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from their outcomes” (Taylor et al. 1997). Many companies and government agencies utilize some form of adaptive management in their decision-making process. Passive adaptive management or “trial and error” approaches are the most commonly used forms of adaptive management. A more strategic and defensible approach exists in the form of “active adaptive management” (Walters and Holling 1990; Taylor et al. 1997).
The term adaptive management describes an interactive process designed to improve the rate of learning about the management of complex systems (see Box 17.1).
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- Setting Conservation Targets for Managed Forest Landscapes , pp. 352 - 392Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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