Water Resources Adaptive Management to Cope with Uncertainty

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Water resources managers shall fully consider about the complexity of managed system, especially the uncertainty, which requires adaptive management. This paper describes the connotation, principles, composition and conditions for implementation etc of adaptive management, which emphasizes concepts of uncertainty, surprises and resilence, and is a cycle process of formulating, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, feedback and adjusting policies. Water resources adaptive management requires guarantee of policies, laws, finance and information etc, and has a broad prospect of coping with climate changes and restoring river ecology etc.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 955-959)

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3166-3169

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June 2014

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© 2014 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

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