The intent of this model process is to provide ecosystem planning teams with a performance planning structure that provides consistent, comparable products and results across all ecosystem planning efforts while accommodating wide variations in political circumstances, planning sophistication, public involvement, previous planning activity, and media attention. Because the model deals with planning performance and results, and not with organization and process management, the model should work equally well in integrating the work that has occurred in extensively studied and well documented systems as well as serving as the core development process for systems that have had relatively little previous planning and research.
An Ecosystem Planning Model for Florida (16 pages)
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