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Chapter 2: Seven Guidelines for Policy-Making in an Uncertain World
Some of the first discussion about adaptive policy-making actually emerged in the early 1900s. Dewey (1927, in Busenberg, 2001) put forth an argument proposing that ‘policies be treated as experiments, with the aim of promoting continual learning and adaptation in response to experience over time’. In 1978, Canadian ecologist C.S. Holling introduced natural resource managers to the notion of adaptive environmental assessment and management and paved the way for future thinking with regard to adaptive policies in socio-ecological settings.
In 1993 the term ‘adaptive policy’ appears in the published literature in Kai Lee's book that integrated ...