Adaptiveness to enhance the sustainability of farming systems. A review

I Darnhofer, S Bellon, B Dedieu, R Milestad - Agronomy for sustainable …, 2010 - Springer
During the last decade the context in which farmers must manage their farm has changed
rapidly, and often with little warning. Dramatic price swings for agricultural commodities …

Adaptive management: where are we now?

L Rist, BM Campbell, P Frost - Environmental conservation, 2013 - cambridge.org
Adaptive management (AM) emerged in the literature in the mid-1970s in response both to a
realization of the extent of uncertainty involved in management, and a frustration with …

Varieties of experimentalism

CK Ansell, M Bartenberger - Ecological Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
Across a range of disciplines and issues, experimentalism has emerged as a prominent
approach for addressing environmental problems. Yet the meaning of “experiment” varies …

The great experiment with devolved NRM governance: lessons from community engagement in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s

A Curtis, H Ross, GR Marshall, C Baldwin… - Australasian Journal …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Since the 1980s, natural resource management (NRM) in Australia and New Zealand has
been an ambitious experiment with community engagement. Underpinned by theory about …

Citizen science in the age of neogeography: Utilizing volunteered geographic information for environmental monitoring

JP Connors, S Lei, M Kelly - Annals of the Association of American …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The interface between neogeography and citizen science has great potential for
environmental monitoring, but this nexus has been explored less often than each subject …

Collaborative adaptive rangeland management fosters management-science partnerships

H Wilmer, JD Derner, ME Fernández-Giménez… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rangelands of the western Great Plains of North America are complex social-ecological
systems where management objectives for livestock production, grassland bird …

Unblocking the flow of biodiversity data for decision-making in Africa

PJ Stephenson, N Bowles-Newark, E Regan… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
African countries need to conserve biodiversity and use natural resources rationally if they
are to avoid continued environmental degradation that jeopardizes sustainable …

Bridging adaptive management and reinforcement learning for more robust decisions

M Chapman, L Xu, M Lapeyrolerie… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
From out-competing grandmasters in chess to informing high-stakes healthcare decisions,
emerging methods from artificial intelligence are increasingly capable of making complex …

Systems thinking in practice: participatory modeling as a foundation for integrated approaches to health

R Duboz, P Echaubard, P Promburom… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
One Health (OH), EcoHealth (EH), and Planetary Health (PH) share an interest in
transdisciplinary efforts that bring together scientists, citizens, government and private …

Combining backcasting and adaptive management for climate adaptation in coastal regions: A methodology and a South African case study

T Van der Voorn, C Pahl-Wostl, J Quist - Futures, 2012 - Elsevier
Developing adaptation strategies for deltaic and coastal regions is a major challenge, due to
future uncertainties of climate change and complexity of the social–ecological systems to be …