New guide on adaptive management

The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook

The overarching goal of sound natural resource management is an equitable, efficient and sustainable use of managed resources (e.g. water, forests, and species stocks). The governance systems put in place in democratic societies to reach this goal must respect the principles of good governance, as laid down in the EC White Paper on Governance: to be transparent and accessible, inclusive, effective, coherent and accountable. Good environmental governance is both an end in itself and a mean to reach higher level environmental goals.

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