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...

Piloting is an important form of policy experimentation and a promising tool for policymakers to innovate, formulate and test alternative policy designs for the future. While this is recognized in theory, there are several challenges in realizing a pilot's potential to do so in practice....

Policy failures are in a sense inevitable. That is, if a policy developed to deal with a specific problem or issue is left in place long enough it is highly likely that over time the environment or problem context will shift enough that the policy will become obsolete or irrelevant and like a...

The use of experimentation by practitioners and resource managers as a policy instrument for effective policy design under complex and dynamic conditions has been well-acknowledged both in theory and practice. For issues such as water resource management policy experimentation, especially pilot...

Meeting the requirements of the Paris Agreement to keep the global average temperature from rising more than 2ºC above pre-industrial levels will mean vastly expanded use of low-carbon sources of electricity, such as wind and solar power, as well as advanced technologies for long-term energy...

In 2017, the World Bank published The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future, concluding that a low-carbon future will not be possible without minerals. This report makes that case even stronger, but with a new emphasis on how technology improvements and recycling could...