Adaptive collaborative management of community forests in Asia: experiences from Nepal, Indonesia and the Philippines

Abstract

This book is about conscious attempts by local communities in three Asian countries to improve the management of their forests. It explores how collaborative learning, negotiation and planning, involving different actors, in forest communities in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines, can contribute to better management in some quite surprising ways. It provides plausible causal connections between the action research of the Adaptive Collaborative Management Research Project implemented by CIFOR and the outcomes for the groups of people (and their forests) involved in the research. There are seven separately authored chapters entitled: (1) Introduction: people, forests and the need for adaptation; (2) Adaptive collaboration management: a conceptual model; (3) Enhancing adaptiveness and collaboration in community forestry in Nepal: reflections from participatory action research; (4) Shaping opportunities for improving forest quality and community livelihoods in Central Sumatra and East Kalimantan, Indonesia; (5) Muddling towards cooperation: spontaneous orders and shared learning in Malinau District, Indonesia; (6) Facilitating change from the inside: adaptive collaborative management in the Philippines; and (7) Discussion and conclusions