Abstract
Using science to adaptively guide management for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is widely talked about as good public policy. Almost every agency, stakeholder, and planning process professes support and has its own adaptive management and science efforts. But highly fragmented adaptive management and science cannot solve such urgent complex problems. California’s 2009 Delta Reform Act recognized that meeting the co-equal goals of a sustainable ecosystem and water supply reliability in the Delta required major changes in governance, planning, and management. Such changes also require major changes in how science is organized and employed in management. Here is a straw proposal for integrating the many parochial science and adaptive management programs for the Delta.
Highlights
Using science to guide management adaptively for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is widely talked about as good public policy
Adaptive management and science for the Delta suffer from three major problems (Lund et al 2011): A
As the controversy over the Bay–Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) shows, it is difficult for dozens of agencies to agree on strategy for complex systems such as the Delta (Madani and Lund 2012)
Summary
Using science to guide management adaptively for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is widely talked about as good public policy. As the controversy over the Bay–Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) shows, it is difficult for dozens of agencies to agree on strategy for complex systems such as the Delta (Madani and Lund 2012). This problem applies to both regulation and project management. Strategically oriented public science, agencies and stakeholders have typically developed science programs focused on their individual missions.
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