{"id":4703,"date":"2015-02-27T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2015-02-27T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:46:47","slug":"complexity-principles-and-policy-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/complexity-principles-and-policy-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity principles and policy making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting paper released that demands that policy makers adopt a complexity approach to policy making around environmental decision making. \u00a0These principles are useful, and can you see how they would apply to social systems too?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Create policies that have legs: When developing a policy to manage fisheries or allocate water distribution in agriculture, for example, make it flexible so it can continue to effectively manage the resource, no matter how it changes in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Support policies that encourage ecosystem diversity: Opt for plans that encourage organism and habitat diversity, because casting a larger net will let the policy be most responsive no matter what happens in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Invest more in monitoring: Don\u2019t just collect data, but actively analyze the data, drawing connections to the past and assessing what that relationship might mean for the future. Do more field-based monitoring and less predictive modeling.<\/li>\n<li>Expect a future that\u2019s different from the past: Move away from a \u201cbetter safe than sorry\u201d approach to management and assume the ecosystem will shift in unexpected ways. Design policies that can adapt based on how the ecosystem changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good, basic complexity principles applied to the management of resources, an area often dominated by predictive, target-based planning approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/26\/embrace-unknowns-opt-for-flexibility-in-environmental-policies\/\">Embrace unknowns, opt for flexibility in environmental policies | UW Today<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting paper released that demands that policy makers adopt a complexity approach to policy making around environmental decision making. \u00a0These principles are useful, and can you see how they would apply to social systems too? &nbsp; Create policies that have legs: When developing a policy to manage fisheries or allocate water distribution in agriculture, for example, make it flexible so it can continue to effectively manage the resource, no matter how it changes in the future. Support policies that encourage ecosystem diversity: Opt for plans that encourage organism and habitat diversity, because casting a larger net will let the policy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[53,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-1dR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}