Socio-economic and political concerns of resourcing, skill and leadership requirements for monitoring and evaluation as part of adaptive management are evident in the coastal zone, as they SB431542 are outside of it. In the coastal zone however, the costs of monitoring and evaluation are born at a different scale (local) to those who claim to practice adaptive management (regional and state scales), arguably shifting the costs for information away from those who benefit, and generating at least some animosity towards it. If adaptive management is to be applied as part of integrated coastal zone management, further research ought to explore the interactions between assessment scale, resourcing and monitoring design in generating the disconnect between monitoring and evaluation and the impact of subsequent information on management decision-making. A lack of expertise in this area also means that tools for supporting managers in reflecting on the way seed coat conduct monitoring and evaluation would likely be useful.
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