Adaptive Improvements to Design Guidelines for Stream Restoration Structures

Rachel L. Kaufman, Peggy Ann Johnson

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Abstract

Adaptive management is a heuristic approach to treating stream restoration projects as a continuous, cyclic experiment, yielding results to be incorporated into future decisions. This comprehensive assessment views failures as surprises that are valuable lessons; this information can then be used in the development or improvement of comprehensive guidelines. Monitoring evaluation and communication of results are critical; the monitoring results trigger feedback mechanisms to invoke adaptation to the newly acquired information and communication of new hypotheses, treatments, or policies. These principles were applied to a monitoring study of three urban restoration sites in the Piedmont physiographic region of Maryland.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2001 Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference
EditorsD.F. Hayes, D.F. Hayes
Pages441-445
Number of pages5
StatePublished - Dec 1 2001
EventProceedings of the 2001 Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference - Reno, NV, United States
Duration: Aug 27 2001Aug 31 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2001 Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference

Other

OtherProceedings of the 2001 Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityReno, NV
Period8/27/018/31/01

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Water Science and Technology

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