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Insights from Policies

Experience demonstrates that policies designed implicitly or explicitly to operate within a certain range of conditions are often faced with challenges outside of that range. The result is that many policies have unintended impacts and don't accomplish their goals. Therefore, in order to help policies help people, policy-makers need ways to design policies that can adapt to a range of conditions.

This phase of research is designed to advance and test our proposition that adaptive policies have features which facilitate the ability to adapt to both anticipated and unanticipated conditions. Toward this we compiled insights from the relevant literature, and developed two policy case studies each in Canada and India.

Designing Policies in a World of Uncertainty, Change and Surprise

Adaptive Policy-Making for Agriculture and Water Resources in the Face of Climate Change – Phase I Research Report

Part A: Introduction and Concepts

Part B: Policy Case Studies in India

Part C: Policy Case Studies in Canada

Part D: Synthesis and Conclusions