A balanced approach
Achieving a balance between management, research and monitoring underpins the Partnership's approach.
The adaptive management approach means that management actions are altered in response to changing circumstances. Adaptive management requires the ability to monitor progress toward a desired outcome and to explain this progress in terms of management actions and other changes in the situation.
The interactions between management, research and monitoring involves a two way flow of information.
Management, with input from the community, provides environmental values and resource management objectives, and identifies key environmental issues.
Research addresses the key issues, gathers information to narrow the
knowledge gaps and provides scientific linkages that support and create
the various indicators used by managers involved in monitoring.
Monitoring provides feedback to researchers in the form of prioritised
research, based on patterns observed during the assessment of the ecosystem.