scholarly journals Missouri River restoration efforts should include adaptive management, report urges

Eos ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
River Restoration ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Management Report

scholarly journals Assessment of Missouri River floodplain invertebrates during historic inundation: implications for river restoration

2014 ◽  
pp. 05 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J.C. Gosch ◽  
M.L. Miller ◽  
A.R. Dzialowski ◽  
D.M. Morris ◽  
T.R. Gemeinhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Restoration ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
River Floodplain

Progress, problems and prospects in Australian river repair

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstie Fryirs ◽  
Bruce Chessman ◽  
Ian Rutherfurd
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
River Restoration ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
River Management ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Stream Management ◽  
Diverse Discipline ◽  
Base Management ◽  
Economic Perspectives

Effective river restoration requires an integrative approach among researchers, managers and stakeholders, grounded in sound science. Using Australia as a case study, we examined contemporary responses to the following three global challenges for river management: first, to base management practice on ‘best available science’ (BAS); second, to integrate diverse, discipline-bound knowledge within cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches; and third, to achieve adaptive management based on monitoring and evaluation. Analysis of 562 papers from the six Australian national stream-management conferences held since 1996 provided insight into the rapidly growing area of management, and the degree to which these three challenges are being met. The review showed that discipline-bound abiotic or biotic science was the focus of 46% of papers. Cross-disciplinary science, defined as the integration of biophysical sciences, was presented in 36% of papers, and trans-disciplinary science, defined as the merging of biophysical science with social and economic perspectives, in 17%. Monitoring and evaluation results were presented in only 12% of papers, whereas applications of adaptive management were reported in a mere 2%. Although river management has been transformed in recent decades, much remains to be done to create a holistic foundation for river restoration that links biophysical science to social science and economics.

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