Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management From Forest Communities to Global Actors

• Main Authors: Colfer, Carol J. Pierce, Prabhu, Ravi, Center for International Forestry Research
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2023; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Earthscan Forest Library
• Subjects: ACM; ACM Approach; ACM Process; ACM Program; ACM Team; Agribusiness and primary industries; Agricultural science; Agriculture and farming; Applied ecology; Baru Pelepat; Biodiversity; Broom Grass; CAPRI; Collaborative Forest Management; Conservation of the environment; Customary Forest; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Ecosystems & Habitats; Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental Issues; Environmental management; Environmental policy and protocols; Flood Policy; Forest Adjacent Communities; Forest landscape management; Forest Management; Forestry and community; Forestry and silviculture; Forests & Rainforests; Geography; Greater Jakarta; Human geography; Industry and industrial studies; Interdisciplinary studies; Jakarta’s Flooding; Jambi Province; Kukiya Kiya; Landscape protection; Large Scale Oil Palm Plantation; Mafungautsi Forest; Nature; Oil Palm Companies; Participatory Forest Management; PFM; PFM Approach; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Social impact of environmental issues; Stewardship Economics; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; PFM Approach; Oil Palm Companies; Social Learning; ACM Approach; Forest Management; Jakarta's Flooding; Forest Adjacent Communities; Trust Building; Stewardship Economics; Large Scale Oil Palm Plantation; Jambi Province; ACM Process; Baru Pelepat; PFM; Landscape Governance; ACM Program; Customary Forest; CAPRI; Mafungautsi Forest; Broom Grass; ACM; ACM Team; Collaborative Forest Management; Greater Jakarta; Kukiya Kiya; Climate Change; Flood Policy; Participatory Forest Management; Adaptive Collaborative Management; Environmental Issues
• ISBN: 1032352299; 1032352280; 9781032352282; 9781032352299; 1003325939; 9781000844603; 9781000844627; 9781003325932; 1000844625; 1000844609
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003325932

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.