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Breakout Sessions Concerning the Ten Strategic Directions | Key Points
Participant Comments on Strategy
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A common theme is about making things work.
Adaptive Management requires that you are explicit
about goals, mechanisms, indicators and processes
and that you use feedback for continuous improvement.
By using adaptive management and developing the
organizational capacity to understand its various stages
you force these things to happen.
[Response] We are dealing with agencies that say they
are using adaptive management but they are not really.
Institutional Arrangements
organizational capacity and develop champions within organizations.
Participant Comments on Tactics
Use indicators and build capacity for change.
There needs to be organized training to help staff do
new or fairly new tasks.
Giant red sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus
franciscanus, is the largest of all sea urchins and
one of the longest-lived animals, with a lifespan of
over 200 years. Sea urchins are ancient creatures
that have been around for some 450 million years.
They are an important source of food for sea otters,
sea stars, crabs and wolf eel. Sea urchins are very
sensitive to water quality and are therefore used as
an indicator species to monitor pollution.
Strategic Directions for Biodiversity Conservation in the Metro Vancouver Region | Forum Proceedings: Key Points and Potential Action Steps
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