This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities.

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is currently a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, New York, USA. She is author/editor of numerous books, including Masculinities in Forests (Routledge, 2020), The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests (Routledge, 2017) and Gender and Forests (Routledge, 2016).

Ravi Prabhu is a forester with thirty years of international experience. He began his international career with CIFOR and has been with World Agroforestry (ICRAF) since 2012 and is the Deputy Director General-Research. Since January 2020 he is also the Director of Innovation, Investment and Impact at CIFOR-ICRAF. He won the Queen's Award for Forestry in 2005, presented by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Anne M. Larson has been a Principal Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) since 2012. She is currently the Team Leader for Equal Opportunities, Gender, Justice and Tenure at CIFOR and also co-coordinates the Governance of Natural Resources flagship of the Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) CGIAR Research Program. Anne serves on the Council of the International Land Coalition (ILC) and the board of directors of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI).

1. Adaptive Collaborative Management: Experiential and Theoretical Forebearers 2. Local People's Perspective on Action Learning: Impressions from the Amazon 3. Researcher Collaboration Complexities in Participatory Action Research: Zambian Experiences 4. Gender and Adaptive Collaborative Management in a Forested Ugandan Landscapes 5. Strengthening Women's Tenure Rights and Participation in Community Forestry in Central Uganda 6. Capacity Building for ACM: Lessons Learned from Training in Distinct Contexts 7. Learning from Adaptive Collaborative Management: A Participatory Tool to Support Adaptive and Reflective Learning in Multi-Stakeholder Forums 8. How Adaptive Collaborative Management Can Leverage Changes in Power: Insights from Social Theory 9. Can Activist Engagements have Research Outcomes? The Case of ACM and Participatory Action Research 10. Circles and Spirals