part Section I Foundations of Adaptive Collaborative Management -- chapter 1 Appraising Adaptive Management -- chapter 2 Roles for Civil Society in Protected Area Management: A Global Perspective on Current Trends in Collaborative Management -- chapter 3 Ecoregional Perspectives in Conservation: Recent Lessons and Future Directions -- chapter 4 Learning and Adaptation for Forest Conservation -- chapter 5 Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects for Collaborative Management of Protected Areas: An International Perspective -- part Section II Institutions and Policies -- chapter 6 Adapting Land Reform to Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic -- chapter 7 Property in Wild Biota and Adaptive Collaborative Management / chapter 8 Agents in Adaptive Collaborative Management: The Logic of Collective Cognition / chapter 9 On the Edge of Chaos — Crafting Adaptive Collaborative Management for Biological Diversity Conservation in a Pluralistic World / chapter 10 Authority and Scale in Political Ecology: Some Cautions on Localism / chapter 11 Tenure and Community Management of Protected Areas in The Philippines: Policy Change and Implementation Challenges / part Section III Modeling Protected Area Human Activity Systems -- chapter 12 Making Public Protected Areas Systems Effective: An Operational Framework / chapter 13 Ecoregional Management in Southern Costa Rica: Finding a Role for Adaptive Collaborative Management / chapter 14 Population Dynamics, Migration, and the Future of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve / chapter 15 Toward Social Criteria and Indicators for Protected Areas: One Cut on Adaptive Comanagement / chapter 16 Overview of a Systematic Approach to Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects / chapter 17 Anticipating Change: Scenarios as a Tool for Increasing Adaptivity in Multistakeholder Settings / part Section IV Case Studies: Applications of Adaptive Collaborative Management Approaches -- chapter 18 Community-Based Conservation Area Management in Papua New Guinea: Adapting to Changing Policy and Practice / chapter 19 Integrating Biological Research and Land Use Practices in Monteverde, Costa Rica / chapter 20 Linking Geomatics and Participation to Manage Natural Resources in Madagascar / chapter 21 Facilitation, Participation, and Learning in an Ecoregion-Based Planning Process: The Case of AGERAS in Toliara, Madagascar / chapter 22 Reclaiming Ancestral Domains in Pala’wan, Philippines: Community- Based Strategies and Perspectives on Adaptive Collaborative Management