Adaptive Policies: Guidance for Designing Policies in Today's Complex, Dynamic and Uncertain World
Adaptive policy is designed to help policy-makers help people. Crafting policy that can quickly adapt to a range of anticipated and unanticipated conditions is the goal.
IISD and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) India are working on a four-year research project on adaptive policy-making with funds provided by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The book, Adaptive Policies Guidebook, will be published in 2008.
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