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a framework for environmental management programs such as adaptive management or ecosystem-based management, emphasizing components needed for four different feedback / learning loops. Reviews progress on the S4S.com support system for inter-agency program management that will operationalize this framework.
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Maps–Models–Management Assembling tools for ecosystem-based management of Newport Bay & Coast
Authors: Scott Akenhead S4S Solutions BC Dr. Scott Carley Organomics Consulting WA Dr. Irwin Haydock S4S Solutions CA Krista Sloniowski Connective Issue CA Robert Stein City of Newport Beach CA
CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IRCWMP
The Path to Sustainability
• whole-systems thinking • inter-agency program • span multiple jurisdictions • stakeholder engagement
• move from vision to action
• measure progress
• project tracking
• building consensus
• knowledge management
Requires structured collaboration to deal with inherent complexity.
Structured Collaboration WORKSPACE
PROGRESS REPORTING
GOALS
ULTIMATE OUTCOMES
SHARED OUTCOMES
STORIES
INDICATORS
IMMEDIATE OUTCOMES
STRATEGIC PLAN
AUTHORITY
REGIONAL OBJECTIVES
LOCAL OBJECTIVES
PROJECTS
OPERATING PROCESS
EBM / AM FRAMEWORK
REPORTING TO STAKEHOLDERS
PROJECTS REVIEW & FUNDING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ACTION ITEMS WORKING GROUPS
SECURE DOCUMENTS MANAGEMENT EXTERNAL PROJECTS WORKFLOW
EXECUTION
OUTPUTS
MANDATE
ON-LINE COMMUNITY
HUNDREDS OF PROJECTS
HUNDREDS OF PROJECTS
ANNUAL OPERATING PROCESS
PRIORITIZATION INTEGRATION
REG
ION
AL
SC
ALE
LO
CA
L SC
ALE
CONSENSUS ON VALUES
WATERSHED OBJECTIVES
LOCAL OBJECTIVES
INTEGRATED PROJECTS
STAKEHOLDER GOALS
PROJECT FUNDING
FUNDING NEEDS
PROGRESS INDICATORS
adaptive management
An approach to learning from management actions that allows:
scientific evaluation testing alternate management approaches adjusting policies and institutions as new
information becomes available from carefully designed monitoring programs.
Scientific Consensus Statement on Marine Ecosystem-Based Management, 2005
Acknowledge that our current understanding is incomplete. Acknowledge that our current institutions are inadequate.
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT - Process
Scientific and social processes are vital components of AM: 1. Management acts on appropriate temporal and spatial scales.
2. Management focus is on experimental design: controls for experiments and statistical power of analyses.
3. Computer models build a synthesis of knowledge and embody a consensus on ecology.
4. Use models to evaluate strategic alternatives. 5. Communicate alternative scenarios to political arena. 6. Negotiate trade-offs and select one scenario.
adapted from www.resalliance.org/600.php
Collaborative Adaptive management
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD STAKEHOLDERS
FUNDED PROJECTS RESOURCES
DESIRED OUTCOMES
Collaborative Adaptive management
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
PROPOSED PROJECTS
KNOWLEDGE
FUNDED PROJECTS
STAKEHOLDERS
RESOURCES
DESIRED OUTCOMES
Collaborative Adaptive management
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
PROPOSED PROJECTS
KNOWLEDGE
SCENARIOS
PREDICTED OUTCOMES
FUNDED PROJECTS
STAKEHOLDERS
RESOURCES
DESIRED OUTCOMES
Learning Loop: Scenarios-based Planning
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
Collaborative Adaptive management
PREDICTED OUTCOMES KNOWLEDGE
PROPOSED PROJECTS SCENARIOS
FUNDED PROJECTS
OBSERVED OUTCOMES
MONITORING
LEARNING
STAKEHOLDERS
DESIRED OUTCOMES
RESOURCES
Learning Loop: Adaptive Management
ACTIVE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
AM seeks to aggressively use management intervention as a tool to strategically probe the functioning of an ecosystem. Interventions are designed to test key hypotheses about the functioning of the ecosystem.
- adapted from http://www.resalliance.org/600.php
Adaptive management definition from CALFED Bay-Delta Program, 2000
• Actions are partnerships between scientists and managers.
• Design actions as experiments, with risk commensurate with the status of species involved.
• Use science to evaluate the feasibility of those experiments.
http://www.calwater.ca.gov/content/Documents/ ROD8-28-00.pdf
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
Collaborative Adaptive management
PREDICTED OUTCOMES KNOWLEDGE
PROPOSED PROJECTS SCENARIOS
FUNDED PROJECTS
OBSERVED OUTCOMES
MONITORING
LEARNING
STAKEHOLDERS
DESIRED OUTCOMES
RESOURCES
VALUES
Feedback Loop: Policy Exploration/Development
OPEN MANAGEMENT Process
Achieving Adaptive Management objectives requires an open management process which seeks to include past, present, and future stakeholders and to create and maintain political openness.
Adaptive Management applies a collegial scientific approach to build understanding, but also aims to enhance the institutional flexibility (or new institutions) required to apply this understanding on a day-to-day basis.
‐adaptedfromh-p://www.resalliance.org/600.php
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
PREDICTED OUTCOMES KNOWLEDGE
PROPOSED PROJECTS SCENARIOS
FUNDED PROJECTS
OBSERVED OUTCOMES
MONITORING
LEARNING
STAKEHOLDERS
DESIRED OUTCOMES
RESOURCES
VALUES
Collaborative Adaptive management
Feedback Loop: Policy/Project Feasibility
OPERATIONS REAL WORLD
PREDICTED OUTCOMES
KNOWLEDGE
PROPOSED PROJECTS
SCENARIOS FUNDED
PROJECTS
OBSERVED OUTCOMES
MONITORING
LEARNING
STAKEHOLDERS
DESIRED OUTCOMES
RESOURCES
VALUES
Collaborative Adaptive management
What IS possible if we could, in fact, work together?
SCENARIOS MIGHT BE VERY EFFECTIVE…
Support System Update
New Developments: 1. High-level CAM framework that integrates all
components of ecosystem management. 2. Collaboration support has Project Atlas.
3. Indicator time-series and maps integrated. 4. Project Scenarios with predicted Outcomes.
5. Decision Table to compare Scenarios.
PROJECT ATLAS
PROJECT IN MAP
MAP IN PROJECT
INDICATOR GRAPH in MAP
SCENARIO = PROJECTs, FUNDING, OUTCOMES
COMPARE SCENARIOS BY OUTCOMES
Newport Bay Watershed/coast Plan
Requirement to Lower the Barriers: • Invest in new forms of dialogue and new commitments
between individuals and agencies.
• Improve the exchange, retention, and application of data, information, and knowledge.
Objective for Implementation: Continuity of thought, dialogue, process, and learning despite turnover of participants in a lengthy program. Critical for achieving long-term goals.
Barriers: institutional, regulatory, financial, logistical, technical
The Power of People
Thank you!
Authors: Scott Akenhead S4S Solutions BC Dr. Scott Carley Organomics Consulting WA Dr. Irwin Haydock S4S Solutions CA Krista Sloniowski Connective Issue CA Robert Stein City of Newport Beach CA
