GEOG422 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ecosystem Management, Scenario Planning, Adaptive Capacity
27 Mar 2019
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Traditional natural resource management strategies are increasingly challenged by impacts of cc. Adaptation strategies are flexible - consider interacting impacts of climate and other stressors coordinated across landscape scales are going from theory to practice. Challenges remain to comprehensively incorporate climate adaptation planning into mainstream natural resource management as well as evaluate effectiveness of implemented actions. Cc affecting valued resources and ecosystems in complex ways & challenging existing management practices. Traditional management practices focus on maintaining or restoring historical conditions. These goals may no longer be effected or realistic as climate changes. Climate driven changes are most effective managed through highly adaptive and proactive approaches that are continually refined to reflect emerging and anticipated impacts of climate change. Tools to help explore broad scenarios of risk and development actions that account for uncertainty, optimize trade offs and reflect institutional capacity. Areas stressed or degraded from non climate stressors have lower adaptive capacity and resilience.
