“Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management in Glen Canyon: A Cautionary Tale”

2010. Columbia Journal of Environment Law, vol. 35, no. 1. Authors: L. Susskind, Camacho, A., and Schenk, T. Increasingly, governmental bodies and scholars—including the authors—have been promoting the integration of adaptive management and collaborative planning into regulatory processes to address deficiencies in conventional regulatory decision making.  Adaptive management advocates stress that resource management should be more dynamic, changing over time to adjust to new information and shifting ecological and social conditions. Proponents of collaborative planning maintain that the best management processes involve stakeholders working jointly to make decisions, rather than government agencies ordaining resource management decisions independently. Involving all stakeholders from the beginning is likely to lead to more broadly supported and thus more successful agreements. When combined, these two innovations are sometimes referred to as collaborative adaptive management.