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Acknowledgements
In early 1999, two streams of research in CIFOR flowed together
to form what would become the Adaptive Collaborative Management
Research programme. The first had its origins in research carried out on
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, which inevitably
led to questions about adaptive management, collaboration, conflict and
empowerment. The second arose from an examination of the livelihoods
of local people in forest areas, and conservation areas in particular. Both
of those streams are represented in this book, and we acknowledge their
contributions to the research and thinking that inform these pages.
We begin by thanking the Asian Development Bank, the International
Tropical Timber Organization, the Department for International
Development (U.K.), the International Development Research Centre, the
Ford Foundation and CIFOR for providing the financial support that made
this research possible. We also thank the Department for International
Development and the World Bank for providing the financial support for
production of this book.
Concepts like adaptive collaborative management (ACM) emerge over
time, a process that in our case has been passionate and fulfilling. All the
authors of this book thank our colleagues Carol Colfer, Jack Ruitenbeek
and Chimere Diaw, who acted, reflected and learnt with us as we clarified
our thinking on ACM. Don Gilmour, Peter Frost and Irene Guijt added
intellectual sophistication to our thinking and were indispensable members
of our International Steering Committee. Doris Capistrano has been
supportive throughout, making sure that this work saw the light of day as a