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Managing change towards integrated Managing change towards integrated and adaptive water management: The and adaptive water management: The

NeWater experienceNeWater experience

Claudia Pahl-WostlClaudia Pahl-WostlCoordinator NeWater ProjectCoordinator NeWater Project

Professor for Resource ManagementProfessor for Resource ManagementUniversity of Osnabrück, GermanyUniversity of Osnabrück, Germany

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NeWater

New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertaintyNew approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty

Transdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EUTransdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EU

January 2005 – February 2009January 2005 – February 2009Funded with 12 Mio Euro from the EUFunded with 12 Mio Euro from the EU

35 project partners 35 project partners

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NeWater Case StudiesNeWater Case Studies

Murray Darling

Yangtse

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Adaptive ManagementAdaptive Management– NeWater Approach– NeWater Approach

Adaptive Management Adaptive Management

- is a - is a structured processstructured process for improving management for improving management policies and practices by policies and practices by systemic learningsystemic learning from from outcomes of implemented strategies and by taking outcomes of implemented strategies and by taking into account changes in external factors.into account changes in external factors.

- explicitly recognizes - explicitly recognizes uncertainty and complexityuncertainty and complexity. .

- requires integrated system design to build and sustain - requires integrated system design to build and sustain enabling enabling structural conditionsstructural conditions..

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  …..Integrated, Adaptive RegimesGovernance style Polycentric, broad stakeholder participation

Sectoral Integration

Cross-sectoral analysis identifies emergent problems and integrates policy implementation

Scale of Analysis and Operation

Transboundary issues addressed by multiple scales of analysis and management

Information Management

Open, shared information sources that fill gaps and facilitate integration

Infrastructure Appropriate scale, decentralized, diverse sources of design

Finances and Risk

Financial resources diversified using broad set of private and public financial instruments

Characteristics of …..Characteristics of …..

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Addressing UncertaintiesAddressing Uncertainties

Take Take different different perspectivesperspectives into into accountaccount

Scenario analysesScenario analyses - find - find robust strategiesrobust strategies

Include Include experimentation experimentation and learningand learning

GoalSetting

PolicyFormulation

PolicyImplementation

State / PolicyAssessment

Monitoring &Evaluation

GoalSetting

PolicyFormulation

PolicyImplementation

State / PolicyAssessment

Monitoring &Evaluation

Evaluate decisions by Evaluate decisions by costs of reversingcosts of reversing them them Include Include transparent transparent institutional settings to assess institutional settings to assess

performance of strategies and implement changeperformance of strategies and implement change

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Context Frames Actions Outcomes

Single-Loop LearningIncremental improvement of

established routines

Double-Loop LearningReframing

Triple-Loop Learning

Transforming

Multi-Level & Multi-Loop Multi-Level & Multi-Loop LearningLearning

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…. a balance between decentralization and coordination

…. explicit integration of learning cycles

…. no panaceas but a “diagnostic approach”

…. a paradigm shift in science, policy and management in what „management“ means

…. integrated system design to build and sustain enabling structural conditions

…. “adaptive management” of change process

Implementing AM requires …Implementing AM requires …

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Learn to deal with Learn to deal with uncertaintyuncertainty

Integrated, systemic risk management and robust Integrated, systemic risk management and robust policies policies

New attitude towards uncertainty : “Learning to live New attitude towards uncertainty : “Learning to live with uncertainty and being comfortable with it”. with uncertainty and being comfortable with it”.

Transition from “command and control” to “adaptive Transition from “command and control” to “adaptive and integrated” management stylesand integrated” management styles

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NeWater Synthesis Products

Management and transition framework and data base Uncertainty – concept and guidance Comparisons of CC adaptation strategies across

regions

Training material – online curriculum …. COME AND SEE OUR POSTER!

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Future Challenges - Initiatives

Communicate lessons learned and shape science-policy interface - Twin2Go

Global data base and network of action research projects – GWSP

Education and Training

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More information available

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Global Water System Project www.ecologyandsociety.org

Journal Ecology and Society – three special features on social learning, adaptive water management, stakeholder participation