Serrao-Neumann, SilviaCox, MelanieLow Choy, Darryl2020-10-132020-10-132018Serrao-Neumann, S., Cox, M., & Low Choy, D. (2018). Bridging adaptive learning and desired natural resource management outcomes: Insights from Australian planners. Planning Practice & Research, 34(2), 149–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2018.15491880269-7459https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13897Natural resource management (NRM) has been increasingly guided by governance arrangements seeking less centralized and hierarchical and more integrated and adaptive approaches to achieve desired social-ecological outcomes. Successful implementation of these approaches requires adaptive learning which entails the application of individual, institutional and social learning to adaptive co-management. This paper proposes and validates a conceptual model that identifies components of adaptive learning and their relationships with desired NRM outcomes. Supported by on-ground experience of Australian NRM planners, it discusses three key insights to enable bridging between adaptive learning and NRM outcomes: changing focus away from economic-efficiency culture, supporting learning and knowledge exchange structures, and reinventing practice.application/pdfenThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Planning Practice & Research online on 26 November 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02697459.2018.1549188Journal Article10.1080/02697459.2018.15491881360-0583