Article ID: CBB335286233

It’s about Time: Adaptive Resource Management, Environmental Governance, and Science Studies (2019)

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This article examines adaptive resource management (ARM) as it has been applied to the US horseshoe crab fishery over the past decade. As a critical yet constructive exercise, I have three goals: to suggest how adaptive management, for all its promise, can still be improved; to add a nuanced case study to the literatures on the quantification of nature and environmental decision-making; and to use the example of ARM to make certain temporal aspects of contemporary natural resource management more salient to science and technology studies scholars—that is, to show the ways in which time matters in environmental science, policy, and the analysis thereof. I draw attention to the time-related aspects of adaptive management by developing the notions of temporal orientation and chronological accountability. Temporal orientation refers to the time-based perspectives and epistemological commitments—that is, past-facing empiricism versus future-oriented modeling—that scientists of different types bring to bear on environmental problems. Chronological accountability refers to the missing link in adaptive forms of environmental governance: firm time lines and commitments to reflexively revisit management decisions. The time-related aspects of natural resource management deserve greater attention among both environmental managers and analysts of environmental policy.

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Authors & Contributors
Prudham, Scott
Crooks, Roderic N.
Leonie Dendler
Barnett, Allain J.
Craig, Robin Kundis
Petra Benyei
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Governance
Participation
Environment
Power (social sciences)
Public policy
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Medieval
20th century, late
Places
Sweden
Adige River (Italy)
United States
Italy
Germany
Canada
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
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