Adaptive Governance. The City’s practices, policies and structure will better reflect communities when we can acknowledge that we do not all share – and yet we can collectively benefit from – each other’s views. More adaptive governance is a crucial contributor to a City in which its members share its benefits and burdens more equitably. To realize more adaptive decision-making in community and government, we will: • Support inclusive cross-cultural, cross-issue organizing in communities to reflect the ability of resilient communities to address complex, inter-connected issues; • Lead internal capacity development within City government, particularly as it pertains to engaging communities toward equitable outcomes; • Create and hold shared space where community and government join together to identify opportunities and solve shared challenges; • Support communities in pursuing forms of governance that reflect their lived experience, values, and aspirations.
Adaptive Governance. The proposed Implementation Agreement is not meant to resolve every current issue in space governance. Rather, it provides the minimum framework of international law that is necessary at this moment in history for public and private activity on the Moon and beyond. It builds upon current institutions and processes while creating new governance for issues that are not yet ripe for resolution. It links private property rights with public policy obligations, recognizing the importance of both in the grandest of public-private partnerships. The Moon Treaty itself acknowledges that such adaptive governance is necessary:
Adaptive Governance. To realize more adaptive decision-making in community and government, we will: • Support inclusive cross-cultural, cross-issue organizing in community to reflect the ability of resilient communities to address complex, inter-connected issues; • Lead internal capacity development within City government, particularly as it pertains to engaging communities toward equitable outcomes; • Create and hold shared space where community and government join together to identify opportunities and address shared challenges; • Support communities in pursuing forms of governance that reflect their lived experience, values, and aspirations.
