Adaptive People for Adaptive Management

Introduction:The known methods of adaptive management of information network protection with special security measures are not effective enough in modern conditions, as they only take into account collected and processed data on security events and do not analyze the dynamics of the actions.Purpose:Developing a method of adaptive control of information network protection based on the analysis of violator's actions.Results:A method has been proposed for adaptive management of information network protection. Unlike other known methods, it is based on analyzing the dynamics of the violator's actions and determining the situational confrontation parameters under stochastic uncertainty. The method includes situation monitoring, operational control of the sequence of violator's actions, modeling the attacker's strategy, determining the situational parameters with a reliable prediction of the intrusion strategy. During the analysis, the network administrator receives information about the priority purposes of an intruder, the tools used and the vulnerabilities of the network. This provides an opportunity to promptly take measures to increase the security of the network and avoid its compromise.Practical relevance: Тhis approach allows you to maintain the operation of automated management systems for an organization with integrated structure, taking into account the scaling in planning and making changes to the structure on the background of information confrontation at the required level when multiple threats are changing their dynamics.

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Strategies to improve implementation of adaptive management practices for restoration in coastal Louisiana

Shore & Beach ◽

10.34237/10088110 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 83-91

Author(s):

Tim Carruthers ◽

Richard Raynie ◽

Alyssa Dausman ◽

Syed Khalil

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Numerical Models ◽

The United States ◽

State Agency ◽

Coastal Protection ◽

Coastal Restoration ◽

Management Actions ◽

Coastal Louisiana ◽

Restoration Effort

Natural resources of coastal Louisiana support the economies of Louisiana and the whole of the United States. However, future conditions of coastal Louisiana are highly uncertain due to the dynamic processes of the Mississippi River delta, unpredictable storm events, subsidence, sea level rise, increasing temperatures, and extensive historic management actions that have altered natural coastal processes. To address these concerns, a centralized state agency was formed to coordinate coastal protection and restoration effort, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). This promoted knowledge centralization and supported informal adaptive management for restoration efforts, at that time mostly funded through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA). Since the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in 2010 and the subsequent settlement, the majority of restoration funding for the next 15 years will come through one of the DWH mechanisms; Natural Resource and Damage Assessment (NRDA), the RESTORE Council, or National Fish and Wildlife Foundation –Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (NFWF-GEBF). This has greatly increased restoration effort and increased governance complexity associated with project funding, implementation, and reporting. As a result, there is enhanced impetus to formalize and unify adaptive management processes for coastal restoration in Louisiana. Through synthesis of input from local coastal managers, historical and current processes for project and programmatic implementation and adaptive management were summarized. Key gaps and needs to specifically increase implementation of adaptive management within the Louisiana coastal restoration community were identified and developed into eight tangible and specific recommendations. These were to streamline governance through increased coordination amongst implementing entities, develop a discoverable and practical lessons learned and decision database, coordinate ecosystem reporting, identify commonality of restoration goals, develop a common cross-agency adaptive management handbook for all personnel, improve communication (both in-reach and outreach), have a common repository and clearing house for numerical models used for restoration planning and assessment, and expand approaches for two-way stakeholder engagement throughout the restoration process. A common vision and maximizing synergies between entities can improve adaptive management implementation to maximize ecosystem and community benefits of restoration effort in coastal Louisiana. This work adds to current knowledge by providing specific strategies and recommendations, based upon extensive engagement with restoration practitioners from multiple state and federal agencies. Addressing these practitioner-identified gaps and needs will improve engagement in adaptive management in coastal Louisiana, a large geographic area with high restoration implementation within a complex governance framework.

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