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| Strategic Habitat Conservation |
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| A unified conservation approach for defining and pursuing landscape and population sustainability. a structured science-based framework founded on an adaptive, iterative process of biological planning, conservation design, conservation delivery, monitoring, and research |
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| Structured Decision Making |
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| Is an organized approach to identifying and evaluating creative alternatives and making defensible choices in difficult decision situations |
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| Adaptive Resource Management |
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a process that promotes flexible decision making
that can be adjusted in the face of uncertainties as outcomes from management actions and other events become better understood. Not "trial and error". |
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Implementation of on-the-ground actions based on information from biological planning and conservation design
management actions on populations. |
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| Assumption-driven Research |
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| IThis functional element acknowledges the need to progressively refine biological goals and objectives with research directed at testing the biological assumptions and uncertainties integral to science-based planning and assessment. |
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| Measurable biological outcomes |
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An agency needs to make three types of inferences about its resource management actions: 1. The effects of a particular type of management action on habitat and individuals;
When research priorities are established as an outcome of biological planning,
2. Program and agency accomplishments expressed in terms of population impacts
3. Net progress towards population objectives |
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| No single office is likely to apply all elements of the SHC framework. Even a dedicated team of conservation planners and researchers that can perform the technical elements of SHC will not deliver conservation programs. Implementation of the full framework will require a Service-wide commitment that will benefit from an integration of program offices providing different but complimentary functions rather than our current program- centric model. |
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| An organisms of ecological and/or human value that is of priority interest for management through the MPA. |
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| Fix the problem with what you have. |
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| An interactive process wherein we learn how social interactions can best reconcile human kinds' needs and aspirations within the limits that the natural world imposes. |
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| 3 Roles of a public manager |
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Program Mngt
Resource Mngt
Political Mngt |
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| 5 Issues facing Environmental Manager |
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1) Accountability-who's responsible for pollution
2) Ecosystem mngt-
3) Environmental injustice-unequal distribution of environmental risks on a community bc of income or race
4) Sustainable development-meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
5) Unfunded mandates |
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| unit of nature in which living and non living substances interact, with an exchange of materials between living and non living parts |
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| Explain what ecosystem management means to you as an environmental manager? |
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| It's a hollistic approach to environmental management. Without cooperation between agencies and a better understanding of the bigger picture, pollutions may just end up being transferred from one medium to another. |
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| Who is responsible for managing the environment? |
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| Professions, local, state, feds, private sector, non profit |
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| 3 Functions of regulatory agencies |
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1)permitting
2) monitoring for compliance
3) conducting enforcement |
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