Ways forward for aquatic conservation: Applications of environmental psychology to support management objectives

Forecasting Support Systems: ways forward

Forecasting Support Systems (FSSs) are designed to facilitate the performance of the organization’s forecasters and planners. An FSS always includes a set of statistical methods but also can provide (a) support for management judgment and adjustments (b) procedures for storing, retrieving and presenting information and (c) an intuitive user interface. In this article, Fotios Petropoulos, Foresi...

Setting Conservation Objectives For

According to Article 4(4) of Directive 92/43/EEC, “once a site of Community importance has been adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 2, the Member State concerned shall designate that site as a special area of conservation as soon as possible and within six years at most, establishing priorities in the light of the importance of the sites for the maintenance or restor...

Decision Support for Environmental Management

Deconstructing adaptive management: criteria for applications to environmental management.

The concept of adaptive management has, for many ecologists, become a foundation of effective environmental management for initiatives characterized by high levels of ecological uncertainty. Yet problems associated with its application are legendary, and many of the initiatives promoted as examples of adaptive management appear to lack essential characteristics of the approach. In this paper we...

Implications and Ways to Move Forward

Intermediate means of transport have been presented as potential solutions to local transport and accessibility problems. However, in some situations, transport problems may be best solved through non-transport solutions (see Box 25). Where there are problems transporting water and firewood, it may be possible to create a water source nearby (a well or piped water) and reduce the demand for dis...