The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management

The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.
This book is one of the newest additions to the SWCS publications. The 25 authors represent a rich international knowledge base related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. As Moore describes in the preface, “Adaptive management is a structured process of learning by doing.” Adaptive management is not just a trendy term of the day; it is an approach that will become even more essential in the future to adequately understand the interlinking systems that affect landscape health and to successfully mitigate negative impacts on the environment. Landscapes are described in the book as “complex adaptive systems.” Managing landscape resources requires considering the interplay of many factors, from biophysical to cultural. The book develops an approach that promotes resilient systems over nonresilient systems.