Learning to Learn: The Best Available Science of Adaptive Management

Of all the dynamic processes in the human-forest ecosystem that determine long-term sustainability, learning and learning-based planning and decision making (adapting) are among the most important. In the framework of human-forest ecosystem sustainability (chap. 1), adaptive management is a social ecosystem process to be considered equally with ecological processes such as energy capture and flow, nutrient and water cycling, and diversity- and structure-based resilience to disturbance.