As a planning method for adaptation to the uncertain impacts of climate change, we focused on “adaptive management.” We built a framework for the planning of adaptive management and conducted a case study to plan its adaption to rice crop damage under high temperatures in Saitama Prefecture.

The focus of our ideas on adaptive management in climate change adaptation were: establishing alternative measures to counter future uncertain impacts; monitoring the impacts of climate change and effectiveness of adaptation measures; learning among stakeholders and information sharing; and feedback to science. It was emphasized in the study that the method of adaptive management was not the same as a simple “plan-do-check-act cycle.”

We created two separate phases as the process of adaptive management: the planning phase, and the action phase. In this research, we conducted a trial of the planning phase and generated a concrete image of the plan of adaptive management in climate change adaptation. This planning method is effective in terms of its implication for climate change adaptation.