The community-based collaborative movement in the United States / Karen E. Firehock -- Integrating and applying knowledge from community-based collaboratives : implications for natural resource management / Charles G. Curtin -- How CBCs learn : ecological monitoring and adaptive management / Maria E. Fernández-Gimenez and Heidi L. Ballard -- Effective collaboration : overcoming external obstacles / Melanie Hughes McDermott, Margaret Ann Moote, and Cecilia Danks -- Collaborative governance : integrating institutions, communities, and people / Gregg B. Walker and Susan L. Senecah -- Building a theory of collaboration / William D. Leach -- The promise of community-based collaboration : agenda for an authentic future / E. Franklin Dukes