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The Elements of Scientific Advice
The Elements of Scientific Advice
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One of the obligations of scientists and the scientific community is to provide the needed scientific information to natural resource managers. This can be done either directly or through the development of scientific methodology which resource managers can then employ in developing their own scientific information.
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Existing scientific knowledge is comprised of information that is known with certainty, information that is known probabilistically and information that is uncertain or unknown1. It is rare that scientific information is known with complete certainty and there are circumstances in which information is unknowable with scientific certainty.
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Scientific advice will be severely compromised and even misleading where these two principles are not followed. THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION FOR WATER MANAGEMENT In an ideal world, a water manager would wish to have comprehensive information.
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In economics jargon, the marginal costs of gathering or developing the last bits of scientific information will outweigh the marginal benefits. (One exception will be instances in which toxic wastes threaten an aquifer and there is no alternative source of water supply.)
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If water managers are to succeed in their ever more complex and ever more demanding endeavors they will need the best possible scientific knowledge and information. In developing and communicating this scientific information research scientists must be mindful of two fundamental principles that govern good scientific advice irrespective of the kind of science involved.
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Third, and finally, too often there is little or no scientific information available. Here adaptive management in which the manager learns by doing will require solid scientific input and a careful balancing between the experimental needs and the objectives of the management regime.
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1986. Adaptive Management of Natural Resources.
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