1. Adaptive Co-Management as an Emergent Strategy
 Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
THE INVISIBLE WAND
Adaptive Co-Management
as an Emergent Strategy
in Complex Bio-Economic Systems
A Paper written by
Jack Ruitenbeek and Cynthia Cartier
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Occasional Paper No. 34, October 2001
Presentation by Rowan B. Martin
illustrated with René Magritte’s paintings

2.  Does science have a rôle to play in all of this ?
Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
Now, in defining the panarchy, in studying complex systems and in looking at adaptive co-management, the terms . . .
GOAL
PURPOSE
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
OBJECTIVE
creep back into the discussion . . .
linking these somehow to human well-being and sustainability
Does science have a rôle to play in all of this ?

3. We must move consciously into a realm of complex systems thinking
Basic and Applied Research in a Complex Systems Framework
We must move consciously into a realm of complex systems thinking
We must move consciously into a realm of complex systems thinking ,
rather than relying on our deterministic roots

4.  Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
Further work is needed on –
the notion that ACM is an emergent property 
ACM seems to emerge
and work best where there is a high dependence on a
bio-economic system, homogeneity of vision and high penalties
for failure

5.  Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
Further work is also needed on –
incentives 
measures
of success 
and
credit at
the local level 

6.  Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
Ongoing research into criteria and indicators (C&I) needs to change from its deterministic past and be re-oriented to the needs of complex systems 
– Indicators have a key rôle to play in adaptive management
– C&I are powerful tools for learning
and awareness building within complex systems and contribute directly to dezombification
– C&I research needs to look for
finer-grained criteria of success that
can stand in usefully for high level goals
– Some components of complex systems are,
in fact, quite simple and may be described by
straightforward cause-effect relationships

7.  Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
More research is needed in the rôle of consciousness within an adaptive system 
We should welcome philosophers into research teams
If our policies are to promote dezombification,
we will need philosophers
to tell us if we are indeed ridding the world of zombies

8.  Pedagogy: A Brief Research Agenda
Recapitulation
Where were we ?
In Galileo’s time, philosophers were revered and paid more than other scientists
Where are we now ?
Three hundred years later, economists
are the most revered and highly paid.
The plight of natural scientists is the same.
The world is oblivious to its philosophers.
Where should we be heading ?
We need to borrow from the old and re-invent science.
Pay the philosophers more, become tolerant of ecologists
and banish the economists.