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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...

2012. Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 49. Authors: L. Susskind, Camacho, A., and Schenk, T. 1. Collaborative adaptive management (CAM) is regularly touted as the best way to handle natural resource management in the face of uncertainty, change and conflict. Successful applications of CAM have, however, been elusive in practice. 2. This article examines the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (AMP) in the United States, and other CAM efforts, to illustrate why and how procedural...

2001. Futures Research Quarterly , vol. 17, no. 2. Authors: T. Chermack , Lynham, S. , and Ruona, W.

2010. Journal of the American Planning Association , vol. 76, no. 4. Author: R. Quay. Problem: Human and natural systems will probably have to adapt to climate change impacts, but this cannot be planned for using the traditional approach based on predictions because of the subject's great complexity, its planning horizon more than 50 years away, and uncertainty about the future climate and how effectively CO2 emissions will be reduced. Purpose: This article proposes a more appropriate basis for...

2004. In Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making. Authors: P. Schoemaker , Koehler, D. , and Harvey, N.

2012. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge MA. Authors: J. Holway , Gabbe, C. J. , Hebbert, F. , Lally, J. , Matthews, R. , and Quay, R. In the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty, planners, public officials, and community residents need new tools to anticipate and shape the future. Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools examines the current state of scenario planning and scenario planning tools that can help communities and regions prepare for that future through a variety...

2019. Privacy and Security. Author: P. Howell O'Neill. Last month, we found out that hackers took down a county government in California. Around the same time, a city in Maine lost control of all its data. These followed New York state’s capital, Albany, admitting that hackers had crippled the city’s technology operations, which means just about everything important in the city was taken down. And just last week, Baltimore was hit by a successful ransomware attack that demanded 13 bitcoin to...

2001. Mediation Quarterly, vol. 18. S. T. McCreary, Gamman, J., and Brooks, B. For the past decade, we at CONCUR have been mediating complex environmental disputes and using the technique of joint fact-finding as a cornerstone of our model of practice. In this article, we present and reflect on this body of experience, with the goal of better informing both our colleagues in the field and other potential users of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) about the elements and preconditions for...

2019. S. C. World News Team. Lack of investment in cybersecurity could jeopardise the core goals of smart cities, warns ABI Research.

2019. WGBH News, Boston. Authors: C. Burrell and Will, S. Some cities in Massachusetts are cashing in on homeowners who have failed to pay tax bills by running auctions that pull in thousands of dollars more than they’re actually owed in taxes.

2019. The Washington Post. Author: J. Marks.

2022. Author: L. Susskind, The AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its online publication, the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy hosted the webinar "A Decade of Science & Diplomacy" on November 8th, 2022. The event featured four authors who contributed to the issue published on October 12th reflecting on the state of science diplomacy throughout the last ten years: Cathy Campbell, Robert Hormats, Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, and Lawrence Susskind.