General description
This course would enable student to start thinking and working in the framework of environmental adaptive management concept and wisely making use of scientific, managerial, social and economic data and information to determine a set of SMART indicators to be used for setting management plans, and to ensure follow up of its implementation, and to determine its effectiveness, and reviewing it if necessary.
The course contains three chapters:
1- Concept of Environmental Adaptive Management: This chapter constitutes the basic introduction to the environmental adaptive management concept for natural ecosystems and its resources. It explains to the student how the concept and its principals & implications have evolved, and how it leads to the effective implementation of plans & activities in a way that leads to the predefined goals in maintaining, protecting, and sustaining natural ecosystem, based on local & national success stories.
2- DPSIR Concept: This chapter explains in detailed and interactive manner the elaboration of indicators system Drivers, Pressure, State, Impact, Response (DPSIR) to assess natural ecosystems and resources in a way that enable student to understand the case study and enable him/her to develop plans and setting management, scientific, social, legal and economic actions.
3- DPSIR indicators: In this chapter the student will implement the DPSIR system on case studies covering different types of natural ecosystems and resources.