Adaptive Management for Water Resources Project Planning (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1 Report Purpose and Scope
1 Report Purpose and Scope
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The agency's projects include flood control levees, large hydropower and navigation facilities on the Columbia, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers, and ecosystem restoration projects (the largest of which is currently in the Florida Everglades)
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For example, congressional legislation mandates that the Florida Everglades restoration project be managed under an adaptive management rubric, the federal science and management program for the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam is framed by adaptive management principles, and the Corps is promoting the concept as a guiding principle in managing the Missouri River dam and reservoir system. Adaptive management is interdisciplinary, has a strong theoretical component, and represents a departure from traditional management approaches in many ways.
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In addition to these meetings, panelists reviewed Corps of Engineers documents and spoke with other Corps officials and with several adaptive management and water resources experts. BOX 1.1 Charge to the Panel on Adaptive Management for Resources Stewardship The panel will review the Corps of Engineers' efforts in applying adaptive management concepts to project and program planning and operations, identifying adaptive management's potential and its limitations.
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Interest in adaptive management concepts may also reflect a burgeoning realization of the limits of science and engineering to redress complex public policy problems. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was widespread optimism that scientific advances were leading toward a world of increasing certainty and precision, as well as greater social benefits through application of scientific knowledge.
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. Through much of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the Corps of Engineers based its flood control program on the notion that levees were, by themselves, adequate for controlling all floods, and that other measures (e.g., upstream reservoirs)
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Additional/new objective(s) Upper Mississippi River: navigation ecological and recreational benefits Middle Mississippi River: naviga- ecological and recreational benefits tion, flood control Lower Mississippi: navigation, flood wetland restoration/preservation control Columbia River: hydroelectric salmon habitat and population res power, navigation, flood control toration Missouri River: navigation, flood ecological and recreational benefits control, irrigation Everglades: arable land, irrigation, Everglades restoration, water sup flood control ply Coastal Louisiana: flood protection, wetland restoration navigation, oil and gas develop ment Glen Canyon Dam: hydroelectric recreation; endangered species power protection Kissimmee River: flood control wetlands restoration
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evaluates project outputs and subsequently adjusts operations policies is essential to ensure that project outputs and social demands remain synchronized over time. REPORT ORGANIZATION Chapter 2 builds upon discussions in this introductory chapter and further explores adaptive management theories and practices.
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