This book has three primary objectives.  The first objective is to provide scholars with a more realistic view of adaptive management, without arguing against adaptive management.  Adaptive management is necessary as well as desirable, but it is not easy, and demonstrating that through the Chino Basin experience is an important goal.  The second objective is to provide practitioners with encouraging yet cautionary lessons about the challenges and benefits of an adaptive approach – in similar fashion as the first objective, the goal here is to endorse the adaptive approach...