Offers a diverse set of case studies that reveal the challenges and implications of adaptive co-management thinking. This book synthesizes lessons for natural and cultural resource governance in a wide range of contexts. It is suitable for researchers and environmental practitioners in fields across the political and environmental spectrum.

In Canada and around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping the resource governance landscape. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management.This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools of this emerging field, informed by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners with over two decades of experience. It offers a diverse set of case studies that reveal the challenges and implications of adaptive co-management thinking and synthesizes lessons for natural and cultural resource governance in a wide range of contexts."Adaptive Co-Management" is not only a timely book but also a useful concept for resource governance in a world marked by rapid socio-ecological change. It will be of interest to researchers, environmental practitioners, policy-makers, and students in fields across the political and environmental spectrum.

Contents
Figures, Tables, Boxes
Acronyms
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part 1: Theory
2 Adaptive Co-Management and Complexity
3 Connecting Adaptive Co-Management, Social Learning, and Social Capital through Theory and Practice
4 Building Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Co-Management
5 Adaptive Co-Management for Resilient Resource Systems
Part 2: Case Studies
6 Challenges Facing Coastal Resource Co-Management in the Caribbean
7 Adaptive Fisheries Co-Management in the Western Canadian Arctic
8 Integrating Holism and Segmentalism
9 Conditions for Successful Fisheries and Coastal Resources Co-Management
Part 3: Challenges
10 Communities of Interdependence for Adaptive Co-Management
11 Adaptive Co-Management and the Gospel of Resilience
12 Culturing Adaptive Co-Management
Part 4: Tools
13 Novel Problems Require Novel Solutions
14 The Role of Vision in Framing Adaptive Co-Management Processes
15 Using Scenario Planning to Enable an Adaptive Co-Management Process in the Northern Highlands Lake District of Wisconsin
16 Synthesis
Glossary
Contributors
Index.