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Negotiated Learning
Collaborative Monitoring in Forest Resource Management |
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Irene Guijt, Editor |
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"A welcome shift from monitoring as mere data collection that fixates on standard indicators. The authors show that monitoring for adaptive management depends on conscious social learning and negotiated decisions on what processes of change are critical...this accessible analysis will inspire many practitioners throughout the world."
--Michel Pimbert, International Institute for Environment and Development |
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"Tackles one of the biggest challenges in learning: how do we use our experience effectively to improve what we do? Monitoring is neither easy nor well understood...This book does not shy away from the difficulties."
--Fred Carden, International Development Research Centre |
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Table of Contents
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Paper / $31.95
ISBN 978-1-933115-38-2
Cloth / $84.00
ISBN 978-1-933115-39-9
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The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resources management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. |
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Collective monitoring shifts the emphasis of development and conservation professionals from externally defined programs to a locally relevant process. It focuses on community participation in the selection of the indicators to be monitored as well as community participation in the learning and application of knowledge from the data that is collected. As with other aspects of collaborative management, collaborative monitoring emphasizes building local capacity so that communities can gradually assume full responsibility for the management of their resources. |
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The cases in Negotiated Learning highlight best practices, but stress that collaborative monitoring is a relatively new area of theory and practice. The cases focus on four themes: the challenge of data-driven monitoring in forest systems that supply multiple products and serve diverse functions and stakeholders; the importance of building upon existing dialogue and learning systems; the need to better understand social and political differences among local users and other stakeholders; and the need to ensure the continuing adaptiveness of monitoring systems. |
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Editor Bio |
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Irene Guijt is an independent researcher and consultant, specializing in organizational learning and sustainable rural development. She was on the International Scientific Steering Group of CIFOR's Adaptive Collaborative Management research project from 2000 to 2002. | |
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