The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management

The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Edited by Keith M. Moore

2009

ISBN 978-0-9769432-7-3

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I. Managing Adaptive Systems

Chapter 1. Landscape Systems Framework for Adaptive Management

Keith M. Moore

Part II. Complex Systems and Development: The Science

Chapter 2. The Field System           

J. Paul Mueller, Denise Finney, and Paul Hepperly

Chapter 3. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Farm Enterprise Systems

Peter Wyeth

Chapter 4. Watershed-Based Systems

Sharyl Walker and Saied Mostaghimi

Chapter 5. Governance of Landscape Systems: A Dinner Party Approach

Cornelia Butler Flora and Arion Thiboumery

Chapter 6. Ecosystems and Ecosystem-Based Management

Carola A. Haas, Emmanuel A. Frimpong, and Sarah M. Karpanty

Chapter 7. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: A Policy Perspective

Gerald Shively and Dileep Birur

Chapter 8. Building Innovation Systems for Managing Complex Landscapes

Louise E. Buck and Sara J. Scherr

Part III. Case Studies across Landscape Systems: The Art

Chapter 9. Community-Based Wetland Comanagement in Bangladesh

Devona Bell Sherwood

Chapter 10. Adaptive Watershed Management in the South American Highlands: Learning and Teaching on the Fly

Jeffrey Alwang, Victor Barrera, Robert Andrade, Sarah Hamilton, and George W. Norton

Chapter 11. Community Organizing for Natural Resource Management: Strategies for Mitigating Farmer-Pastoralist Conflict through Decentralized Governance

Michael Bertelsen, Salmana Cissé, Keith M. Moore, and Abdoulaye Touré

Chapter 12. Systems Integration and Innovation

Keith M. Moore

Contributors

Suggested Citation

Moore, Keith M., ed. 2009. The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society.