Policy Application

"When situations are characterized by variability, uncertainty and change, conventional planning scenarios provide little guidance regarding future needs and conditions… Specific solutions are less important than the existence of processes and frameworks that enable solutions to be identified and implemented as specific constraints and contexts change." 1

For this final phase of research we will work directly with agriculture and water resource policy-makers and managers to apply adaptive policy features to the design of existing or proposed policies as a test for pragmatism and the functionality of key adaptive policy concepts and tools.

Stay tuned to this Web page during the fall of 2007 for insights gleaned from these practical applications of adaptive policy.

1 Moench, M., A. Dixit, S. Janakarajan, M.S. Rathore and S. Mudrakartha, 2003. The Fluid Mosaic: Water governance in the context of variability, uncertainty and change – Synthesis Paper. Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Katmandu, Nepal and the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Boulder, Colorado, USA