Adaptive management recognizes that knowledge about natural resource systems is uncertain.
Therefore, some management actions are best conducted as experiments in a continuing attempt to reduce the risk arising from that uncertainty. The aim of such experimentation is to find a way to achieve the objectives as quickly as possible while avoiding inadvertent mistakes that could lead to unsatisfactory results. However, actually implementing adaptive management is neither simple nor intuitive. This complexity stems from the large number of interconnected potential scenarios, the related uncertainties, and the intricacy of necessary computations. Advanced technologies provide the decision support tools to help managers organize the relevant information, simplify the analysis of the scenarios, and assist in the search for optimal solutions.