Implementing Adaptive Management within a Fisheries Management Context: A Systematic Literature Review Revealing Gaps, Challenges, and Ways Forward
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Development of Adaptive Management
2.1. Conceptualizing Adaptive Management
2.2. Approaches to Adaptive Management
2.3. Challenges to Adaptive Management
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Review Structure
3.2. How Has Adaptive Management Been Defined?
3.3. What Are Key Components of Implementation
- Participation of those outside the management institution in order to manage conflict and increase the pool of contributions to potential management solutions;
- Defining and bounding of the management problem, including the setting of management objectives;
- Representing existing understanding through system models that include assumptions and predictions as a basis for further learning;
- Identifying uncertainty and alternate hypotheses based on experience;
- Implementation of actions/policies to allow continued resource management or production while learning (reducing uncertainty);
- Monitoring of the effect of implementing new policies;
- Reflection on, and learning from, monitoring results, comparison with original expectation in order to revise models and/or management actions based on what has been learned;
- Iterative repetition of this cycle (points 1–6 above) so that management reduces uncertainties and leads to improved management outcomes over time.
3.4. Identified Challenges to Implementation
4. Results
4.1. Definitions of Adaptive Management
4.2. Implementation of Adaptive Management
4.2.1. Key Components of Adaptive Management
4.2.2. Additional Components Key to Adaptive Management
4.3. Identified Barriers to Adaptive Management
5. Discussion
5.1. The Concept of Adaptive Management Remains Ambiguous
5.2. Implementing Adaptive Management in Customary Fisheries Management
5.3. Adaptive Management as a Value Driven Process
5.4. Is Adaptive Management Being Successfully Implemented?
5.5. Lessons Learned on Implementing Adaptive Management
5.5.1. Active and Ongoing Stakeholder Participation
5.5.2. Socio–Economic Implications of Management Actions Should Be Integrated into Decision-Making
5.5.3. Monitoring Is Necessary for Adaptive Management to Be Iterative
5.5.4. Adaptive Management Requires Time
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Category | Description |
---|---|
Mention | Adaptive management is referenced, however not discussed in detail |
Theory | Adaptive management is theorized |
Suggest | Adaptive management is identified as an appropriate approach for fisheries management, but a framework or complete analysis of how it is appropriate or could be applied is not provided |
Framework | Adaptive management is identified as an appropriate approach and a decision-based framework for how adaptive management may be implemented is outlined |
Implement | Adaptive management approach is implemented within a fisheries management context |
Concept in Definition | Number of Papers | Reference |
---|---|---|
Integrated | 2 | [40,56] |
Multi-disciplinary | 1 | [40] |
Learning by doing | 3 | [40,42,51] |
Systematic process | 2 | [44,51] |
Improving management decisions | 4 | [39,44,51,52] |
Management alternatives as experimental treatments (only) | 2 | [43,50] |
Experimental and experiential | 1 | [48] |
Actions changed in response to new information | 10 | [39,41,43,44,45,50,53,54,56,58] |
Learning about resources and system being managed | 3 | [44,53,55] |
Iterative/continuous | 7 | [38,39,45,47,56,57,58] |
Process of trial and error | 1 | [38] |
Response to problems of ignorance and uncertainty | 3 | [47,49,53] |
Key Components of Adaptive Management | Number of Papers |
---|---|
(1) Participation of those outside the management institution in order to manage conflict and increase the pool of contributions to potential management solutions | 15 |
(2) Defining and bounding of the management problem, including the setting of management objectives | 12 |
(3) Representing existing understanding through system models that include assumptions and predictions as a basis for further learning | 12 |
(4) Identifying uncertainty and alternate hypotheses based on experience | 11 |
(5) Implementation of actions/policies to allow continued resource management or production while learning (reducing uncertainty) | 15 |
(6) Monitoring of the effect of implementing new policies | 11 |
(7) Reflection on, and learning from, monitoring results, comparison with original expectation in order to revise models and/or management actions based on what has been learned | 13 |
(8) Iterative repetition of this cycle (points 1–6 above) so that management reduces uncertainties and leads to improved management outcomes over time | 11 |
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Edmondson, E.; Fanning, L. Implementing Adaptive Management within a Fisheries Management Context: A Systematic Literature Review Revealing Gaps, Challenges, and Ways Forward. Sustainability 2022, 14, 7249. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127249
Edmondson E, Fanning L. Implementing Adaptive Management within a Fisheries Management Context: A Systematic Literature Review Revealing Gaps, Challenges, and Ways Forward. Sustainability. 2022; 14(12):7249. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127249
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdmondson, Elizabeth, and Lucia Fanning. 2022. "Implementing Adaptive Management within a Fisheries Management Context: A Systematic Literature Review Revealing Gaps, Challenges, and Ways Forward" Sustainability 14, no. 12: 7249. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127249