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Finally, the paper proposes innovative approaches for future approaches scenarios in water resources management. 2. 1. What are scenarios? A scenario may be defined as a coherent and systematic description of a 'possible future', expressed as a narrative about future environmental and socio-economic conditions. Scenarios usually have qualitative 'storylines' associated with quantitative indicators (for instance see Nakicenovic and Swart, 2000). Scenarios can be used as a tool for delineating possible futures, which differ in crucial ways from the present.
Water policy reform, like all innovation is a political process. It has recognizable phases. Those attempting to understand, and intervene in innovative processes must be aware of the cycle if they are to make any analytical progress or have a substantive impact. In addition the frustration of those recommending radical water policy reforms will be reduced if they recognize that the benefits of the adoption of new socio-political approaches and new economic instruments are always retrospective rather than prospective for those stakeholders who have to adapt to an externally inspired innovation.
25-43. C. WARWICK, K. BAKKER, T. DOWNING and K. LONSDALE than a 'best guess' trend projection. The scenario methodology is particularly applicable in cases in which new factors may prove to be significant, or in which there is much uncertainty or disagreement about the future. Scenarios are also useful when adaptive time scales are longer than those used in conventional planning, or when the "worst case" needs to be planned for as well as more probable, expected, or central outcomes. Scenarios can develop considering the current situation and drivers that propel the present into the future or by designing a snapshot of a future time and backcasting (working backwards, to determine how that state can be achieved) (Robinson, 1990).