This process is les
s focused on the
fi
nal outcome, but more on the
processes and mechanisms that have produced it, and how they relate
to participation and sustainability. Co-management works at the
interface between the ecosystem and the human system, aiming at
changes in the state of the
fi
rst through behavioural changes of the
second. It is therefore a dynamic process in which management plan-
ning is an iterative cycle. Adaptive management recognizes that all
management is somewhat experimental, and that the results are not
fully predictable, neither environmentally nor socially. Learning there-
foreisacontinuousprocess,alongtheturningwheeloftheprojectcycle.