摘要：Efforts to implement collaborative adaptive management (CAM) often suffer from challenges, such as anunwillingness of managers to share power, unresolved conflicts between stakeholders, and lack of capacity among stakeholders.Some aspects considered essential to CAM, e.g., trust and stakeholder capacity, may be more usefully viewed as goals forintermediate strategies rather than a set of initial conditions. From this perspective, intermediate steps that focus on social learningand building experience could overcome commonly cited barriers to CAM. An exploration of Springs Basin Working Groups,organized around major clusters of freshwater springs in north Florida, provides a case study of how these intermediate stepsenable participants to become more reasonable and engaged. This strategy may be easily implemented by agencies beginninga CAM process
关键词：collaborative adaptive management; Florida USA; public participation; Reasonable Person Model; social learning;stakeholder capacity
