watershed planning and implementation is an iterative and adaptive process

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watershed planning and implementation is an
iterative and adaptive process
US EPA , 2005
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Adaptive Management Framework

• Ongoing knowledge acquisition
• Critical role of monitoring
• Continuous improvement in the identification and
  implementation of management strategies.
• Effective communication of knowledge for
  policy/planning

www.healthywaterways.org
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3) Collaborative approaches to catchment
management are needed

• Decentralised, polycentric and multi-stakeholder
• local determination within the framework of
  higher regulation
• built on existing organisations and partnerships
• capable of adaptive management and social
  learning
• exploiting benefits of stakeholder participation
• more than delegation vertical and horizontal
  integration of government agencies and other
  bodies and groups
• a legal mandate, accountability and legitimacy
  for specific agency roles and responsibilities

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4) For sustainable changes in land use/land user
behaviour, other enabling requirements are

• widely targeted public awareness raising,
  information and education campaigns
• building of trust and social capital
• knowledge base and technical measures
• leaders and intermediaries that are knowledgeable
  and have local acceptance
• adequate and sustained financial resources
• an enabling regulatory environment.

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Wicked thinking leads to approaches that involve

• a broad societal response by scientists, service
  agencies and civil society
• collaborative management/ partnerships
• adaptive management and social learning
• Explicit recognition and understanding of this
  can inform policy and process design.

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Thank you for listening (again), for more
information, please contact

• Laurence Smith
• l.smith_at_soas.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]