Monitoring and adaptive management: resolving social and organisational issues to improve information sharing in natural resource management

Will Allen, Ockie Bosch, Margaret Kilvington, Don Harley and Ian Brown

Natural Resources Forum, 2001, vol. 25, issue 3, 225-233

Abstract: Adaptive, or ‘learning by doing’, approaches are often advocated as a means of providing increased understanding within natural resource management. However, a number of organisational and social issues need to be resolved if these approaches are to be used successfully. A case study in the South Island high country of New Zealand is used to review what is needed to support an ongoing community‐based monitoring and adaptive management programme. First, the case study is described, paying attention to the social context of the resource management problem. The results of a workshop that explored this problem are then outlined, along with a proposed information flow suggested by participants. Requirements for future steps to resolve these problems (such as information protocols and a multi‐stakeholder information system) are discussed. Finally, some broad lessons are drawn from this exercise that could help others developing similar approaches.

Date: 2001
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