Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management

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.

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is currently a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, New York, USA. She is the author/editor of numerous books, including Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society (Routledge, 2021), Masculinities in Forests (Routledge, 2020), The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests (Routledge, 2017) and Gender and Forests (Routledge, 2016). Ravi Prabhu is a Forester with thirty years of international experience. He began his international career with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and has been with World Agroforestry (ICRAF) since 2012, where he is now its Director General. He won the Queen's Award for Forestry in 2005, presented by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He is the co-editor of Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society (Routledge, 2021).

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