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In some cases, adaptive management – which is a systematic approach for improving and adjusting conservation action by learning from management outcomes – may be required and secured through a legal agreement. In this context, adaptive management can be used to improve the implementation of compensatory measures where there may be uncertainties triggering the need for regular evaluation of the measures’ actual outcomes. This is particularly relevant where the scale of impact and therefore the scale of compensation is not clear (e.g. when compensating for impacts arising from coastal flood defence development landward of a protected site).
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.