Evaluation of Institutional Arrangements to Affect Nutrient Management Through Adaptive

The report describes and assesses the progress to date in the implementation of the Annex 4 Subcommittee’s Lake Erie Nutrient Adaptive Management Framework and offers several recommendations to advance the adaptive management approach. [...] The Annex 4 Objectives and Targets Task Team recognized several sources of uncertainty intrinsic in the set-up phase, the approach used to set targets (including the lack of data regarding 5 bioavailable phosphorus loads and the role of nitrogen loads, Dreissenids and other invasive species) and the hydrometeorology of nutrient load-ecosystem response relationships. [...] This assessment addresses the following through a specific number of tasks: • Assessment of the progress that Annex 4 has made in establishing the LE-AMF • Evaluation of the extent to which the LE-AMF has achieved coordinated planning and implementation of a nutrient adaptive management framework • Evaluation of the extent that the LE-AMF has achieved sustainable institutional arrangements for cal. [...] This section describes the institutional recommendations contained in the board’s 2019 report, the components of the LE-AMF, and strengths and areas of need of the LE-AMF in light of the institutional recommendations. [...] 30 3.3.3 Strengths and areas of need Mapping the LE-AMF guidelines to the institutional recommendations and GLNAM framework in the board’s 2019 report identifies the following strengths and areas of need to align the LE- AMF more closely to the recommendations.