Adaptive Management - General Resources

General Resources

Information and guidance on the entire adaptive management process is available from CMP members’ websites and other online sources:

• The Conservation Measures Partnership’s Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation provide general guidance and principles for good adaptive management in conservation.
• Miradi Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects is user friendly software developed through a joint venture between CMP and Benetech. The software walks conservation teams through each step of the Open Standards.
• Foundations of Success (FOS) Resources and Training web pages list reference materials on adaptive management and monitoring and evaluation, as well as information about online or in-person courses in adaptive management.
• The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Action Planning (CAP) Resources page includes detailed guidance and tools for implementing the CAP adaptive management process. See also TNC’s CAP Standards.
• The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Living Landscapes page contains extensive guidance materials on WCS’s approach to adaptive management.
• WWF's web page on the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management contains detailed guidance, resources, and tools for the steps in WWF's adaptive management process.
• Measures of Success: Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects, written in 1998 by Richard Margoluis and Nick Salafsky, was one of the first detailed manuals about applying adaptive management to conservation projects. Also available in Spanish.
• Foundations of Success (FOS) web pages list Asian Rhino and Elephant Program Evaluation in 2004.
• Foundations of Success (FOS) web pages list National Fish & Wildlife Foundation’s Coral Fund in 2007.
• Foundations of Success (FOS) web pages list Ocean Conservancy’s Overfishing Scorecard in 2007.
• The Department of Fish and Game(DFG) web pages list Adapting to Climate Change programme.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers web pages list Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Final Technical Report in 2009.
• Washington State Department of Natural Resource(CMR) web pages list Forest Practices Adaptive Management Program in 2010.