Adaptive management
Adaptive management is a system of management practices based on clearly identified outcomes and monitoring to determine whether management actions are meeting desired outcomes; and, if not, facilitating management changes that will best ensure that outcomes are met or re-evaluated. Adaptive management recognizes that knowledge about natural resource systems is sometimes uncertain.
Source
43 CFR § 46.30
Scoping language
For purposes of this part, the following definitions supplement terms defined at 40 CFR parts 1500-1508.