Adaptive Management for Conservation Success
June 11-22 2012
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Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation
At the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, USA
Visit
<http://conservationtraining.si.edu>http://conservationtraining.si.edu
or contact <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] for more
information.
THE COURSE
Adaptive Management is a powerful tool used by conservation
researchers and managers to organize project and program development
to efficiently achieve conservation goals. In our course,
participants work in teams to apply Adaptive Management skills to
real-world conservation projects, gaining a realistic view of the
intricacies of conservation endeavors. Each day, experienced course
instructors, coaches, and project resource persons guide project
teams in applying new Adaptive Management tools. You will leave this
course knowing how to apply the Adaptive Management techniques
mastered in this course to your own "real-life" work in conceiving,
planning, monitoring, and implementing effective conservation projects!
This course is taught in partnership with Foundations of Success
(<http://www.fosonline.org/>fosonline.org) following the Conservation
Measures Partnership
(<http://conservationmeasures.org/>conservationmeasures.org), Open
Standards for the Practice of Conservation, and using Miradi adaptive
management software. Each day, with input from project resource
persons, your project team works step-by-step through a project
planning module. All the teams join a plenary discussion to learn
from each other's experiences at each day's end. Each project team
develops and presents a complete draft adaptive management plan at
the end of the course. Participants are encouraged to propose their
own conservation projects as potential course projects for team learning.
Course Costs
The non-credit course fee of $2,500 includes instruction and most
course materials plus meals and lodging. All other travel costs and
incidental expenses are the participant's responsibility. Course
participants earn Continuing Education Units; graduate course credits
(3) are available for qualified applicants through George Mason
University (graduate course enrollment entails additional assignments
and higher course fees).
