セミナー案内：河川の再生事業における順応的管理の適用【Dr. David L. Galat】

We have scheduled the following seminar on adaptive management and river restoration.

We have invited Dr. David L. Galat from U.S. Geological Survey/University of Missouri, US.
Dr. Galat's research centers on ecology and restoration of aquatic resources of
large rivers and floodplain wetlands, particularly the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
He is also interested in the role of science in informing natural resource policy and the application of adaptive management principles to ecosystem conservation and rehabilitation.
Dr. Galat is an author of over 75 professional publications in aquatic and restoration ecology.

We welcome any of those interested.

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date and time : Monday, May 10th at 15:30
place : Room N31, Hokkaido University Department of Agriculture
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title: Challenges to Applying Adaptive Management to Restoring Great Rivers:
the Upper Mississippi Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program

(河川の再生事業における順応的管理の適用)

speaker: Dr. David L. Galat
(U.S. Geological Survey, Missouri Cooperative Research Unit, 302 ABNR Building,
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211.)
http://web.missouri.edu/~galatd/

host: Futoshi Nakamura
(Hokkaido University, Forest Ecosystem Management Group)

abstract:

Numerous ecosystem-scale river restoration programs are underway for many large rivers in the U.S., including the Colorado, Columbia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Rio Grande along with similar programs for river associated wetlands in the California Bay-Delta, Chesapeake Bay, coastal Louisiana, and Florida Everglades.
The diversity of competing issues, significant social-ecological consequences of management decisions, and degree of scientific knowledge required for these programs results in numerous uncertainties over what constitutes effective river-floodplain restoration and argues for application of an adaptive management (AM) approach to large-scale restoration programs.
Adaptive management (AM) is a process of implementing management actions as experiments and making policy choices that are informed by information gained from those experiments – the classic “learning by doing” approach.
Some attributes of effective restoration are identified and contrasted for several large-scale river-wetland restoration programs in the U.S. and details are presented for the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) via the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP). The complex assortment of social-ecological restoration needs within NESP is being undertaken through a long-term commitment to adaptive management.
NESP is authorized to direct US$3.3 billion over 15 years to the dual purposes of improving efficiency of river transport of commodities (navigation) and achieving environmental sustainability.
General principles of AM are briefly reviewed and components of AM being developed during NESP’s planning phase are illustrated.
These include identifying goals and objectives, developing a general conceptual model and performance criteria, and monitoring and assessment programs to enhance learning.
Challenges to UMR restoration to be discussed are: adopting a hierarchical perspective; shifting restoration planning from a traditional linear approach to an AM cycle, and; adopting a system-wide perspective in a project dominated culture.

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For further information, please contact Kiyono Katsumata(kikat●for.agr.hokudai.ac.jp, ●=@).