the results are more robust plans and decisions that allow for adaptation to changing circumstances furthermore scrutinizing the underlying assumptions of current decisions and management practices enables policymakers to test ideas make mistakes and learn from them without risking reallife management failures or collapsing resources using a diametric scenario framework considering opposite extremes the chapter explores the emerging and future relationships between the opportunities successes and challenges in the management of coastal resources in line with the drivers pressures states impact and response dpsir framework unep