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

Managing change towards integrated and adaptive water management: The NeWater experience Claudia Pahl-Wostl Coordinator NeWater Project Professor for Resource Management University of Osnabrück, Germany. NeWater New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty

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

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  1. Managing change towards integrated and adaptive water management: The NeWater experience Claudia Pahl-Wostl Coordinator NeWater Project Professor for Resource Management University of Osnabrück, Germany

  2. NeWater New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty Transdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EU January 2005 – February 2009 Funded with 12 Mio Euro from the EU 35 project partners www.newater.info

  3. NeWater Case Studies Yangtse Murray Darling

  4. Adaptive Management– NeWater Approach Adaptive Management - is a structured process for improving management policies and practices by systemic learning from outcomes of implemented strategies and by taking into account changes in external factors. - explicitly recognizes uncertainty and complexity. - requires integrated system design to build and sustain enabling structural conditions.

  5. Characteristics of …..

  6. Addressing Uncertainties • Take different perspectives into account • Scenario analyses - find robust strategies • Include experimentation and learning • Evaluate decisions by costs of reversing them • Include transparent institutional settings to assess performance of strategies and implement change

  7. Multi-Level & Multi-Loop Learning Context Frames Actions Outcomes Single-Loop Learning Incremental improvement of established routines Double-Loop Learning Reframing Triple-Loop Learning Transforming

  8. Implementing AM requires … …. 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

  9. Learn to deal with uncertainty • Integrated, systemic risk management and robust policies • New attitude towards uncertainty : “Learning to live with uncertainty and being comfortable with it”. • Transition from “command and control” to “adaptive and integrated” management styles

  10. 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!

  11. 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

  12. 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

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