WWF5 Istanbul, March 2009 Managing change towards Managing change towards integrated and adaptive water integrated and adaptive water management: The NeWater management: The NeWater experience experience Claudia Pahl-Wostl Claudia Pahl-Wostl Coordinator NeWater Project Coordinator NeWater Project Professor for Resource Management Professor for Resource Management University of Osnabrück, Germany University of Osnabrück, Germany
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WWF5 Istanbul, March 2009
Managing change towards integrated Managing change towards integrated and adaptive water management: The and adaptive water management: The
- 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..
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
…. 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
www.newater.info
NeWater Project www.gwsp.org
Global Water System Project www.ecologyandsociety.org
Journal Ecology and Society – three special features on social learning, adaptive water management, stakeholder participation