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Watersheds --- Adaptive natural resource management

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The book 'African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management' explores alternative approaches to conservation and resource management in Africa, challenging the traditional 'fortress' conservation model. Edited by Toshio Meguro, Chihiro Ito, and Kariuki Kirigia, it compiles research from various scholars studying socio-ecological systems, rural livelihoods, and political ecology across the continent. The book emphasizes indigenous knowledge and local strategies for sustainable resource use, highlighting case studies from Namibia, Madagascar, Zambia, and Kenya, among others. It targets researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in innovative conservation methods that integrate community involvement and cultural considerations.

Wildlife conservation. --- Adaptive natural resource management.

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Post-fire forest management. --- Adaptive natural resource management. --- Wildfires.

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Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems. Since then, complexity theory has become one of the fastest growing topics in both the natural and social sciences, and touted as a revolutionary way of understanding the behaviour of complex systems.This book uses complexity theory to surface and challenge the deeply held cultural assumptions that shape how we think about reality and knowledge. In doing so it shows how our traditional approaches to generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating some of the ‘wicked’ environmental problems we are currently facing. The author proposes an innovative and compelling argument for rejecting old constructs of knowledge transfer, adaptive management and adaptive capacity. The book also presents a distinctively coherent and comprehensive synthesis of cognition, learning, knowledge and organizing from a complexity perspective. It concludes with a reconceptualization of the problem of knowledge transfer from a complexity perspective, proposing the concept of creative capacity as an alternative to adaptive capacity as a measure of resilience in socio-ecological systems.Although written from an environmental management perspective, it is relevant to the broader natural sciences and to a range of other disciplines, including knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational management, and the philosophy of science.

Environmental management --- Knowledge management --- Adaptive natural resource management --- Complexity (Philosophy)

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biodiversity --- conservation --- natural resource management --- environmental and sustainability society --- environmental technologies --- bioprospecção