In response to Wanye's request, here are specific instructions for downloading Ralph and Poole 2003 (book chapter on monitoring and adaptive management). Should take only 3 or 4 minutes to get a copy...
1) Follow this link: http://www.eco-metrics.com/ 2) Create and account by clicking "Register" on the right of the web page and following the instructions. You will be sent a confirmation email to verify that you are a real person, and not some mischievous automated 'bot on the web. 3) Check your e-mail and *click the confirmation link* in the e-mail. 4) Follow the "Publications" link at the top of the page and click on "Ralph and Poole 2003" (or just click this link for direct access: http://www.eco-metrics.com/content/view/30/9/ ) 5) Once you see the abstract, login (at the right of the screen) with your username and password. You must be logged in to get the full text. 6) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Download Ralph and Poole 2003" link. Anyone having trouble with the web site can contact me off list. I'd be happy to help out. -Geoff Poole Wayne Tyson wrote: > While I agree with Poole about the bandwidth and blather part, I, for > one, would be grateful for some some brief definitions of the terms. > And perhaps some examples illustrating the differences. I could not > glean such from the links provided (probably an illustration of my > ineptitude rather than any real fog in them). Due to the prominence of > the subject matter, I presume that this will also be of interest to the > forum. > > WT > > At 07:45 PM 2/17/2007, Geoffrey Poole wrote: > >> Hi Warren: >> >> Steve Ralph and I struggled with exactly your contrast of >> "business-as-usual" vs. "rigorous use of decision analysis" in a book >> chapter: >> >> S.C. Ralph and G. C. Poole. 2003. Putting monitoring first: designing >> accountable ecosystem restoration and management plans. In Restoration >> of Puget Sound Rivers. D. Montgomery, S. Bolton, and D. Booth, editors. >> University of Washington Press, Seattle. 505p. 2003. >> >> In that chapter, we contrast "Hollings Adaptive Management" (HAM) with >> "Socio-Political Adaptive Management" (SPAM) and discuss the need for >> rigorous monitoring experiments in order to effectively "adapt" >> management actions over time. >> >> Our vote for a new term to describe something akin to Holling's more >> risk-averse description of adaptive management: "Empirical Management." >> >> I could blather on, but I'll save the bandwidth. It's all in the >> chapter, which you can find here: >> >> http://www.eco-metrics.com/content/view/30/9/ >> >> Another paper along a similar vein: >> >> http://www.eco-metrics.com/content/view/18/9/ >> >> -Geoff Poole > > >
