Stumbling Toward Success: A Story of Adaptive Law and Ecological Resilience

For decades, scientific and legal scholars alike have promoted the concept of adaptive management as a necessary approach to meaningful environmental management, restoration, and regulation. Unfortunately, adaptive management success stories are few and far between. The Lake Apopka Restoration Project provides a real-world illustration of adaptive management at work. This article uses adaptive management theory to explore mechanisms to make environmental law better able to address the uncertainties and changing nature of natural systems to restore and protect ecological resilience