Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management

From Forest Communities to Global Actors

Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Ravi Prabhu, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Ravi Prabhu

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032352299
• eBook ISBN: 9781000844627
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues.

The volume argues that the activation and the empowerment of local peoples are critical to addressing current environmental challenges and that this must be enhanced by linking and extending such stewardship to global and national policymakers and actors on a broader scale. This can be achieved by employing ACM's participatory approach, characterized by conscious efforts among stakeholders to communicate, collaborate, negotiate and seek out opportunities to learn collectively about the impacts of their action. The case studies presented here reflect decades of experience working with forest communities in three Indonesian Islands and four African countries. Researchers and practitioners who participated in CIFOR's early ACM work had the rare opportunity to return to their research sites decades later to see what has happened. These authors reflect critically on their own experience and local site conditions to glean insights that guide us in more effectively addressing climate change and other forest-related challenges. They showcase how global and regional actors will have to work more closely with smallholders, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, recognizing the key local roles in forest stewardship.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development, natural resource management and development studies more broadly.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• List of contributors
• Foreword – Ruth Meinzen-Dick
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 A time to change direction
• 2 Revisiting Baru Pelepat: Life after ACM (Indonesia)
• 3 Trust building in a multi-stakeholder forum in Jambi, Indonesia
• 4 ACM as a pathway to mitigate Jakarta’s flood impacts in a changing climate
• 5 The power of possibility in landscape governance: Multiple lives of participatory action research in Kajang, Sulawesi
• 6 Herding cats: Facilitation in social learning processes
• 7 Sustaining adaptive collaborative management processes: Challenges and opportunities from Mafungautsi State Forest, Gokwe, Zimbabwe
• 8 An assessment of Participatory Forest Management inspired by adaptive collaborative management in Malawi
• 9 Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda: Policy, implementation, and longevity
• 10 ACM and Model Forests: A new paradigm for Africa
• 11 Changing the game: An economy built around stewardship
• Index