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Best Management Practice Guide

What a best management practice guide from Fuse looks like: concrete practices, each with the science that justifies it.

1 · The structure

How the document is organized

The sections of a typical best management practice guide, with their usual length. Each project adapts them to its question and its readers.

  1. The objectiveThe impact to reduce or the resource to protect.
    ~1 p.
  2. Practices at a glanceEvery recommendation, on one or two pages.
    ~2 p.
  3. Each practice, and the evidence behind itWhat to do, then the scientific rationale behind it.
    ~12 p.
  4. Where it appliesConditions, limits and exceptions.
    ~2 p.
  5. Technical appendicesSpecifications, drawings and references.
    ~4 p.
2 · Extracts

What the pages look like

Sample page layouts: mock-ups, not extracts from a completed project. The grey lines stand for text.

Practices at a glance

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Practices at a glance

A practice

What to doWhat supports itEvidence
A practice
3 · The final product

What you receive

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