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Most European goose populations have increased exponentially, and this has increasingly brought them into conflict with human activities. To manage this conflict, we used multi-criteria decision analysis to he...
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Open AccessImplementation of the first adaptive management plan for a European migratory waterbird population: The case of the Svalbard pink-footed goose Anser brachyrhynchus
An International Species Management Plan for the Svalbard population of the pink-footed goose was adopted under the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds in 2012, the first ca...
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Application of Decision Science to Resilience Management in Jamaica Bay
This book highlights the growing interest in management interventions designed to enhance the resilience of social-ecological systems (SESs) such as the Jamaica Bay watershed. Effective management requires dec...
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Optimization and Resilience in Natural Resources Management
We consider the putative tradeoff between optimization and resilience in the management of natural resources, using a framework that incorporates different sources of uncertainty that are common in natural res...
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A Decision-Analytic Approach to Adaptive Resource Management
The barriers to implementation, learning, and adaptation in adaptive management have become legendary, and there are serious concerns about the applicability of adaptive management to “wicked problems” in reso...
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Open AccessSnow conditions as an estimator of the breeding output in high-Arctic pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus
The Svalbard-breeding population of pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus has increased during the last decades and is giving rise to agricultural conflicts along their migration route, as well as causing grazi...
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Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations: a brief history and future prospects
Since 1995, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has used an adaptive approach to the management of sport harvest of mid-continent Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in North America. This approach differs from many ...
