Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society

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This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities. Many forest management proposals are based on top-down strategies, such as the Million Tree Initiatives, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and REDD+, often neglecting local communities. In the context of the climate crisis, it is imperative that local peoples and communities are an integral part of all decisions relating to resource management. Rather than being seen as beneficiaries or people to be safeguarded, they should be seen as full partners, and Adaptive Collaborative Management is an approach which priorities the rights and roles of communities alongside the need to address the environmental crisis. The volume presents detailed case studies and real life examples from across the globe, promoting and prioritizing the voices of women and scholars and practitioners from the Global South who are often under-represented. Providing concrete examples of ways that a bottom-up approach can function to enhance development sustainably, via its practitioners and far beyond the locale in which they initially worked, this volume demonstrates the lasting utility of approaches like Adaptive Collaborative Management that emphasize local control, inclusiveness and local creativity in management. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development and natural resource management and development studies more broadly. Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of boxes, figures and tables Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors Glossary and Abbreviations Chapter 1 Adaptive collaborative management: Experiential and theoretical forebearers Chapter 2 Local people’s perspectives on action learning: Impressions from the Amazon Chapter 3 Researcher collaboration complexities in participatory action research: Zambian experiences Chapter 4 Gender and adaptive collaborative management in forested Ugandan landscapes Chapter 5 Strengthening women’s tenure rights and participation in community forestry in central Uganda Chapter 6 Capacity building for ACM: Lessons learned from training in distinct contexts Chapter 7 Learning from adaptive collaborative management: A participatory tool to support adaptive and reflective learning in multi-stakeholder forums Chapter 8 How does adaptive collaborative management leverage changes in power: Insights from social theory Chapter 9 Can activist engagements have research outcomes?: The case of ACM and participatory action research Chapter 10 Circles and spirals Index