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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - The Need for Adaptive Policies -- 2 - Seven Guidelines for Policy-making in an Uncertain World -- 3 - Integrated and Forward-looking Analysis -- 4 - Multi-stakeholder Deliberation -- 5 - Automatic Policy Adjustment -- 6 - Enabling Self-organization and Social Networking -- 7 - Decentralization of Decision-making -- 8 - Promoting Variation -- 9 - Formal Policy Review and Continuous Learning -- 10 - Insights into Implementing Adaptive Policies -- Appendix: Policy Case Study Overviews -- Consolidated Bibliography -- About the Organizations, Editors and Contributors -- Index.

Today's policy-maker has a tough job to do. Policies that cannot perform effectively under today's complex, dynamic and uncertain conditions run the risk of not achieving their intended purpose. Instead of helping, they may actually hinder the ability of individuals, communities and businesses to cope with and adapt to change. Creating Adaptive Policies: A Guide for Policy-making in an Uncertain World is the very first book to distill the principles of complex adaptive systems and adaptive management into practical guidance for policy-makers. It describes the concept of adaptive policy-making