This process is less focused on the final 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 first 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-
fore is a continuousprocess,along the turning wheel of the projectcycle.