Kim Geheb, CPWF-Mekong Basin Leader
Presented at the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
December 7-9, 2011
Session 1: Managing water resources development within a water-food-energy nexus
9. How do we manage complexity?
Strategy 1: Clear Targets
10. How do we manage complexity?
Strategy 2: Legal instruments
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12. How do we manage complexity?
Strategy 3: Adaptive management
The process of management changing itself
as a result of experimentation
Is the action reversible?
Manage humans – not resources.
Don’t wait for science.
Always employ the precautionary principle.
Learn from you’re your successes as well as you mistakes.
13. How do we manage complexity?
Strategy 4: Integrate
“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life
and the material environment as partners.
From the dance emerges the entity Gaia”.
James Lovelock
14. “Most principles of decision-making under uncertainty
are simply common sense”
(Ludwig et al. 1993: 36).
Thank you for your attention!