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SUI Technical Series Vol. III: Adaptive Management: From Theory to Practice
  
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Volume III of the IUCN SUI Technical Series examines the importance of adaptive management in promoting sustainable use. A wide variety of papers selected from two major conferences on adaptive management are presented. With examples from real-life situations as well as scholarly contributions, this volume is essential for gaining a detailed understanding of the issues surrounding adaptive management and sustainable use.

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Selected contents:

  • Tropenbos' Experience with Adaptive Management in Cameroon
  • GIS-Assisted Joint Learning: A Strategy in Adaptive Management of Natural Resources
  • Culture and Cosmovision: Roots of Farmers' Natural Resource Management
  • Decision-Making in Local Forest Management: Pluralism, Equity, and Consensus
  • Plural Perspectives and Institutional Dynamics: Challenges for Community Forestry
  • Participatory Processes and Conflict Management in Community Forestry
  • Adaptive Management: Potential and Limitations for Ecological Governance of Forests in a Context of Normative Plurality
  • Adaptive Management: A Learning-Approach to Decision-Making in Forestry
  • Role of Communities in Adaptive Management: A Case from North America
  • Ruta Condor: An Indigenous-Led Cooperative Model for Conserving Culture, Nature and Agrobiodiversity in the South
  • American Andes
  • Appropriate Social Units of Analysis in the CAMPFIRE Programme in Zimbabwe
  • Transboundary Protected Areas and Adaptive Management
  • Ecoregion Scale Conservation - Planning, Joint Learning and Action
  • The Landscape Kaleidoscope: The Conundrum of Protected Areas and Adaptive Management in the Context of Climate Change

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