Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beyond Scientific Management -- 2. The 15-Mile Reach: Let the Fish Tell Us -- 3. The Camino Real: To Care for the Land and Serve the People -- 4. Grassbanks: Diffusion and Adaptation from the Radical Center -- 5. The Oregon Plan: A New Way of Doing Business -- 6. Community-Based Forestry Goes to Washington -- 7. Toward Adaptive Governance -- Index.

Drawing on five detailed case studies from the American West, the authors explore and clarify how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance and break the gridlock in natural resource policymaking. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central bureaucratic authority, adaptive governance integrates various types of knowledge and organizations. Adaptive governance relies on open decision-making processes recognizing multiple interests, community-based initiatives, and an integrative science in addition to traditional science. Case studies discussed include a program to protect endangered fish in the Colorado River with the active participation of water developers and environmentalists; a district ranger's innovative plan to manage national forestland in northern New Mexico; and how community-based forestry groups are affecting legislative change in Washington, D.C.

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