School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, PO Box 875502, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502, USA.
Environ Manage. 2010 Jan;45(1):132-44. doi: 10.1007/s00267-009-9400-y.
As collaborative groups gain popularity as an alternative means for addressing conflict over management of public lands, the need for methods to evaluate their effectiveness in achieving ecological and social goals increases. However, frameworks that examine both effectiveness of the collaborative process and its outcomes are poorly developed or altogether lacking. This paper presents and evaluates the utility of the holistic ecosystem health indicator (HEHI), a framework that integrates multiple ecological and socioeconomic criteria to evaluate management effectiveness of collaborative processes. Through the development and application of the HEHI to a collaborative in northern Arizona, the Diablo Trust, we present the opportunities and challenges in using this framework to evaluate the ecological and social outcomes of collaborative adaptive management. Baseline results from the first application of the HEHI are presented as an illustration of its potential as a co-adaptive management tool. We discuss lessons learned from the process of selecting indicators and potential issues to their long-term implementation. Finally, we provide recommendations for applying this framework to monitoring and adaptive management in the context of collaborative management.
随着合作团体作为解决公共土地管理冲突的一种替代手段而越来越受欢迎，人们越来越需要评估其在实现生态和社会目标方面的有效性的方法。然而，用于同时检验合作过程及其结果的有效性的框架还不够完善，甚至完全缺乏。本文提出并评估了整体生态系统健康指标（HEHI）的效用，该框架整合了多个生态和社会经济标准，用于评估合作过程的管理效果。通过开发和应用 HEHI 到北亚利桑那州的一个合作团体——迪亚波罗信托基金，我们展示了使用该框架评估合作适应性管理的生态和社会结果所面临的机遇和挑战。我们还介绍了首次应用 HEHI 的基线结果，以此来说明其作为共同适应性管理工具的潜力。我们讨论了从选择指标的过程中得到的经验教训以及它们在长期实施过程中可能出现的问题。最后，我们提供了将该框架应用于合作管理背景下的监测和适应性管理的建议。
