Adaptive management as applied to tourism policy treats management policies as experiments that probe the responses of the system as human behavior changes. We present a conceptual systems model that incorporates the gap between observed and desired levels of the ecological footprint with respect to biocapacity. Addressing this gap (or 'overshoot') can inform strategies to increase or decrease ...

America’s hardwood forests are some of the country’s most important natural resources. Aside from providing the vast majority of timber used in construction and furnishing, as well as over $17 billion in revenue to the state of Indiana alone, they also play a significant ecological role. They provide and ideal habitat for many organism across all kingdoms and phyla. Knowing this, an important q...

The purpose of this study is to examine the possible impact of value systems on earnings management in France, Tunisia and Canada. Cultural values include power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity and long-term orientation. The cross-cultural study uses the method of structural equations trough LISREL approach. The examination covers the period between 2003 and 2009. Fin...

Management of Greater Everglades Ecosystems: The Joint Ecosystem Modeling Laboratory Laura Brandt, USFWS [email protected] Integrating Ecological and Hydrological Models for Adaptive Management of Greater Everglades Ecosystems: The Joint Ecosystem Modeling Laboratory Best, G.R., US Geological Survey Brandt, L.A., US Fish and Wildlife Service Mazzotti, F.J., University of Florida Adaptive man...

Farmland abandonment takes place across the world due to socio-economic and ecological drivers. In Europe agricultural and environmental policies aim to prevent abandonment and halt ecological succession. Ecological rewilding has been recently proposed as an alternative strategy. We developed a framework to assess opportunities for rewilding across different dimensions of wilderness in Europe. ...

Interconnected social and environmental systems are the domain of ecological economics, and models can be used to explore feedbacks and adaptations inherent in these systems. Agent-based modeling (ABM) represents autonomous entities, each with dynamic behavior and heterogeneous characteristics. Agents interact with each other and their environment, resulting in emergent outcomes at the macrosca...

Understanding the cross-scale nature of how natural resource trading links to local extraction patterns remains a topic of great relevance to stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems. Microeconomic influences on a society’s pattern of smallscale natural resources utilization can exacerbate resource overuse, especially under increased population pressure. In many rural communities t...

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Adaptive management is a management approach to address uncertainty in natural resources. The origin of the adaptive approach as a tool, the need for an adaptive process and its relationship to environmental management will be described. Variations of adaptive management will be reviewed as well as the definition and institutional role of adaptive management within the BLM. This will include th...