Armitage (geography and environmental studies, Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada) et al. assemble 15 essays drawn from a symposium, "Moving Beyond the Critiques of Co-Management: Theory and Practice of Adaptive Co-Management," held in Waterloo, Canada, in February 2005, as well as follow-up meetings in Ottawa in 2005, including sessions during the Ocean Management Research Network Conference. Essays are by researchers and practitioners from Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and Europe who work in diverse fields such as zoology, biology, and maritime anthropology. They discuss the co-management of natural resources, issues and challenges, and tools to facilitate its development, also providing case studies of sea urchin harvesting in Barbados, a fishery in Grenada, and marine protected areas in Belize, for example. The book is intended for researchers, environmental practitioners, policy makers, and students. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)