What does adaptive management mean in human-environment policy?

Correct answer: Periodically improving policy and action through learning from monitoring

Adaptive management treats policy as a learning process. Managers set objectives, implement an action, monitor outcomes, compare results with expectations and revise the approach when evidence shows that conditions or assumptions have changed. Local knowledge and scientific information can both contribute. This flexibility is useful under uncertainty and changing climate, whereas a fixed decision that cannot be revised is the opposite of adaptive management.