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Foreword by Robert Chambers.. Acknowledgments.. Contributors.. Part I. Introduction. Strengthening learning in adaptive collaborative management: the potential of monitoring.. Part II. Using Criteria and Indicators. Testing the limits of criteria and indicators in the Brazilian Amazon.. Creating monitoring with rubber tappers in Acre, Brazil.. Part III. Building on Existing Monitoring Systems. Imposing indicators or co-creating meanings in Nepal.. Helping village stakeholders monitor forest benefits in Bolivia.. Tracking broom grass resources for equity in Zimbabwe.. Part IV. Dealing With Difference. Monitoring with strong interests and weak incentives in Palawan, the Philippines.. Using monitoring as leverage for equal opportunity in Nepal.. Monitoring to ease forest management conflicts in Cameroon.. Part V. Adapting Monitoring Processes. Improving forest beekeeping through monitoring in Chimaliro, Malawi.. Initiating a dynamic process for monitoring in Mafungautsi State Forest, Zimbabwe.. Learning to monitor political processes for fairness in Jambi, Indonesia.. Part VI. Conclusions. Expanding views about collaborative monitoring.. References.. Index

The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. 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. 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. Inglés