Adaptive collaborative management of community forests in Asia ...

About the Contributors
Mani Ram Banjade is a graduate of Wageningen University and
Research Center, the Netherlands. He is currently the Theme Leader,
Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods, at ForestAction Nepal.
He has more than 12 years of experience in community forestry and
participatory action research.
Robert (Bob) Fisher is an anthropologist specialising in community
forestry and community-based natural resource management. Since the late
1980s, when he worked for the then Nepal-Australia Forestry Project, he
has worked extensively and written widely in these fields. He was Deputy
Director of the Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC)
in Bangkok from 1997 to 2001. He has a strong interest in action research.
He is currently Senior Researcher at the Australian Mekong Resource
Centre at the University of Sydney.
Herlina Hartanto is completing her Ph.D. in the School of Geography
and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia. She was the
Country Coordinator of CIFOR’s Adaptive Collaborative Management
project in the Philippines. Her major areas of research are criteria and
indicators for sustainable forest management, collaborative monitoring
in community forest management, and adaptability of customary forest
institutions.
Ramses Iwan has been a Field Researcher at CIFOR since 2001. He is
a community member of Setulang Village in Malinau, East Kalimantan.
Trikurnianti (Yanti) Kusumanto is an agriculturalist and social science
researcher at CIFOR and specialises in social learning and multistakeholder
collaboration. She coordinated the Jambi research case study.