Project title: Knowledge integration and Management Strategy Evaluation modelling
Program: Kimberley Marine Research Program

Modelling the future of the Kimberley region


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The Management Strategy Evaluation

‘Management Strategy Evaluation’ is a fairly impressive name for a simple idea. Answers are almost never definite. In thereal world, answers to complex problems almost inevitably lead to more questions. This is because answering the process of answering the initial questions leads to better system understanding and new ideas about alternative management strategies. This concept is inherited from Adaptive Management, which has a well established tradition in conservation.  Adaptive Management acknowledges that our actions affect the system we manage, that actions often have unintended consequences and that as a result management strategies need to be reassessed, and possibly revised, when more information becomes available.

We employ the MSE not manage the Kimberley region, since this is not our role, but to manage this project. In other words, we expect that the initial model results and initial stakeholder discussions will refine the questions the models need to answer (and possibly the models themselves) in an iterative manner.

Above we said that the Management Strategy Evaluation is fundamentally a simple idea. This does not mean that its implementation is also simple, quite the opposite. It needs to involve a large number of people, with different beliefs, different priorities and different expectations on what the project should deliver. We expect this will be a challenging but important component of this project.