Adaptive Management

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-000458",
  "term": "Adaptive Management",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Approach where source controls are initiated while additional monitoring data are collected to provide a basis for future review and revision of the TMDL (as well as management activities).\n\n2. Performance of management actions as experiments. If causation is uncertain, monitoring the results of a management action indicates whether the agent remediated by that action actually caused the effects of concern.\n\n3. Development of a management strategy that anticipates likely challenges associated with compensatory mitigation projects and provides for the implementation of actions to address those challenges, as well as unforeseen changes to those projects. It requires consideration of the risk, uncertainty, and dynamic nature of compensatory mitigation projects and guides modification of those projects to optimize performance. It includes the selection of appropriate measures that will ensure that the aquatic resource functions are provided and involves analysis of monitoring results to identify potential problems of a compensatory mitigation project and the identification and implementation of measures to rectify those problems.",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary",
    "CADDIS Glossary",
    "40 CFR 230.92 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/adaptive-management/"
}