Development of an Indicator Database for Decision-Aiding and Adaptive Phosphorus Management in the Lake Champlain Basin. Technical Report #82.

Title: Development of an Indicator Database for Decision-Aiding and Adaptive Phosphorus Management in the Lake Champlain Basin. Technical Report #82.
Author: Philip Halteman, Mary Watzin
Publication Year: 2015
Number of Pages in Article: 69
Keywords: LCBP Technical Report
Journal/Publication: Lake Champlain Basin Program
Publication Type: Technical and Demonstration
Citation:

Halteman, P. and M. Watzin. (2015). Development of an Indicator Database for Decision-Aiding and Adaptive Phosphorus Management in the Lake Champlain Basin. (Technical Report No. 82). Grand Isle, VT: Lake Champlain Basin Program.

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Abstract:

In 2009, as the LCBP Steering and Technical Advisory Committees began the third update of Opportunities for Action (OFA), the LCBP’s management plan, these committees formalized a desire to develop an adaptive management framework that could be applied to the phosphorus management initiatives outlined in OFA. In particular, the Steering Committee was interested in using an adaptive management approach to make further management progress while helping to shed light on the answers to several basic questions about the relationship between the management actions taken so far in each pollution sector and the “universe of need” in those sectors, about which management actions are the most effective and the most costeffective for achieving reductions in phosphorus loading, about what levels of phosphorus reduction could be achieved if the entire “universe of need” were to be managed, and about how filling major existing knowledge gaps could improve decision-making around which management initiatives to pursue. Note: Data are available in report.

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