adaptive management
; ecosystem service
; environmental protection
; federal system
; floodplain
; freshwater
; global perspective
; governance approach
; policy approach
; public administration
; sustainability
; vulnerability
; United States
Department of Biology, Western University, London, ON, Canada; US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Ofce of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, United States; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; US EPA Ofce of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States; US EPA Ofce of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV, United States; School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States; CSS-Dynamac, Cincinnati, OH, United States; School of Natural Resource Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States; Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States; US EPA Ofce of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; US EPA Region 4 Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States; Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA, United States; US Fish and Wildlife Service, Falls Church, VA, United States; US EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR, United States; Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States; CDM Smith, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, United States; Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States; ORISE Fellow, US EPA Ofce of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Washington, DC, United States; School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl, United States; School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States