‘Adaptive management’ concern attempts to manage complex social-ecological and socio-technical systems in nimble ways to enhance their resilience. In this paper, three forms of adaptive management are identified, ‘scientific’ forms focused on collation of scientific data in response to management experiments, but more recent developments adding processes of collaboration as well as emphasising the need for reflexivity, that is, conscious processes of opening up debates to different perspectives and values. While reflexive adaptive management has been increasingly discussed in theory, there is a lack of examples of what its application means in practice.

As a response, this paper examines an ‘Adaptive Planning Process’ (APP), seeking to apply reflexive adaptive management as a means to improve climate resilience in the UK water sector. The APP’s three inter linked workshops – Aspiration, Scenario and Roadmapping – were co-developed and trialled in a water utility. By describing and justifying the choices made in the development of the APP, the paper aims to reveal some of the challenges that arise when trying to design processes that achieve reflexive adaptation.

The paper concludes that, if applied to planning for climate change, reflexive adaptation has the potential to explore multiple value positions, highlight different potential futures and acknowledge (and hence, partly address) power differentials, and therefore to offer the possibility of real change. On the basis of the trial, we argue that through tapping the depth and breadth of internal knowledge the APP process created the potential for decision making to be joined up across different parts of the utility, and hence offering new strategies and routes for addressing uncertainties and delivering more resilient water services.

“适应性管理”关注尝试以灵活的方式来管理复杂的社会生态和社会技术系统，以增强其弹性。在本文中，确定了三种形式的适应性管理，“科学”形式侧重于根据管理实验对科学数据进行整理，但是最近的发展增加了协作过程，并强调了自反性的需求，即有意识的过程开放辩论以不同的观点和价值观。尽管自反适应管理在理论上已得到越来越多的讨论，但缺乏在实践中应用其含义的示例。

作为回应，本文研究了一种“适应性计划程序”（APP），力求运用反思性适应性管理作为提高英国水务部门的气候适应能力的一种手段。APP的三个相互关联的讲习班-愿望，情景和路线图–是在自来水公司共同开发和试用的。通过描述和证明在APP开发中所做的选择，本文旨在揭示在尝试设计实现自反适应的过程时出现的一些挑战。

该论文得出的结论是，如果将自反适应应用于气候变化规划，则有潜力探索多个价值位置，突出显示不同的潜在未来并承认（并因此部分解决）权力差异，从而提供真正的变化的可能性。在试验的基础上，我们认为通过挖掘内部知识的深度和广度，APP流程创造了将决策整合到公用事业的不同部分的潜力，从而提供了解决不确定性和不确定性的新策略和途径。提供更具弹性的供水服务。