How Should Adaptive Management be Implemented?

From an operational point of view, adaptive management simply means learning by doing and adapting to what is learned.

 Ensure stakeholder commitment to AM for duration of enterprise
 Identify clear, measurable, and agreed-upon objectives
 Evaluate management effectiveness over time
 Identify management actions for decision making
 Model different benefits and costs as outputs of management through time
 Design and implement a monitoring plan

Technical Guide Chapter 3 (PDF 27 pages)