ADAPTool: Beta version for creating new policies

The ADAPTool for Creating New Policies is a Microsoft Excel-based guidance tool designed to help policy-makers develop policies, programs, strategies, or legislation that can adapt to complex and uncertain conditions, such as climate change and volatile market prices.

• The ADAPTool for Creating New Policies is a Microsoft Excel-based tool intended for policy-makers to formulate new policies, programs, strategies, or legislation. It is designed to help designers identify future stressors—including climate change, demographic pressures, and volatile market prices—that could impact stakeholders, sectors, and policy performance, ensuring the resulting policy can adapt effectively to 21st-century complexity.
• The tool is based on the principles of intervening in complex adaptive systems and is derived from the 2009 book 'Creating Adaptive Policies: A Guide for Policy-Making in an Uncertain World', co-authored by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
• Applying the ADAPTool is an interactive and iterative process that should ideally be led by a trained policy designer working with a subject matter expert. The tool is intended to be used in parallel with the general policy design process used to conceive and vet policy objectives.

APA

Roy,, D. (2014). ADAPTool: Beta version for creating new policies. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/publications/guide/adaptool-beta-version-creating-new-policies

Chicago

Roy,, Dimple. ADAPTool: Beta version for creating new policies. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2014. https://www.iisd.org/publications/guide/adaptool-beta-version-creating-new-policies.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{roy2014adaptool, author = {Roy,, Dimple}, title = {{ADAPTool: Beta version for creating new policies}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2014}, month = mar, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/guide/adaptool-beta-version-creating-new-policies}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }