ABSTRACT
THIS CHAPTER AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW provide the results of a careful and systematic study—reductionist in nature—of all 30 sites, to determine the conditions under which the adaptive collaborative management (ACM) approach is likely to succeed or fail. I show how misleading it can be simply to link condition x with impact y in complex adaptive systems, but my purpose is constructive, to encourage greater creativity in developing methods that are more appropriate to these complex adaptive systems.
