CAMNet Rendezvous 2011

The Collaborative Adaptive Management Network (CAMNet) and Antioch University New England hosted the Fifth Annual CAMNet Rendezvous in Keene, NH on April 16-17, 2011.

Photo Credits: Charles Curtin (boat and wind turbine images) and Roundtable on Sustainable Forests (forest image).

The Rendezvous

This year's CAMNet meeting emphasized emergent, place-based approaches to natural resources management. To this end New England with its history of local governance, private lands and the open commons of fisheries offered a very different context within which to view the practice and the potential of collaboration adaptive management. The theme of this year's meeting was adaptive governance – the decision making context required for effective response to change, and presentations focused on innovative approaches to management of three resource types: fisheries, forestry, and climate change action.

See below for a summary of the discussions and presentations made at the meeting.

Partners and Supporters

The program for this year’s Rendezvous was developed in partnership with the following Program Committee Members:

Ted Ames, MacArthur Fellow, Penobscot East Resource Center, and Bowdoin College Coastal Studies Center Scholar-in-Residence
Charles Curtin, Resilience Design Group, Antioch University and North Island Science Collaborative
David Galat, University of Missouri
James Gruber, Antioch University New England
Herman Karl, University of New Hampshire
Keith Robinson, U.S. Geological Survey, NH/VT Water Science Center
Lynn Scarlett, Resources for the Future, former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
Thomas St. Clair, PBS&J
Eric Walberg, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Martha West Lyman, Community Forest Collaborative

The 2011 CAMNet Rendezvous was made possible by support from: