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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 67-77 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Environmental Science and Policy |
| Volume | 147 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Integrated landscape approaches (ILA) aim to reconcile multiple, often competing, interests across agriculture, nature conservation, and other land uses. Recognized ILA design principles provide guidance for implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA in actors, temporal, and spatial scales, inter alia. This diversity hampers learning from and steering ILA because of the intractable nature of the concept. Therefore, we developed a tool—an ‘ILA mixing board’—to structure the complexity of ILA into selectable and scalable attributes in a replicable way to allow planning, diagnosing, and comparing ILA. The ILA mixing board tool presents seven qualifiers, each representing a key attribute of ILA design and performance (for example, project flexibility, inclusiveness of the dialogue, and the centrality of the power distribution). Each qualifier has five (non-normative) outcome indicators that can be registered as present or absent. This process in turn guides planners, evaluators and other participating stakeholders involved in landscape management to diagnose the ILA type, or its performance. We apply the ILA mixing board to three ILA cases in Nicaragua, Madagascar, and the Congo Basin to show some of the many possible configurations of qualifiers on the mixing board. Further application of the tool would allow comparative analysis of the complexity of ILA in a structured and manageable way thereby enhancing the understanding of ILA performance and informing the development of evidence-based land use policy.
Keywords
- Conservation, Development, Ecosystem management, Governance, Land system science, Natural resource management, Resource conflict, Stakeholder engagement, Wicked problems
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Environmental Science(all)
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 147, 09.2023, p. 67-77.
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T1 - Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes
AU - Waeber, Patrick O.
AU - Carmenta, Rachel
AU - Carmona, Natalia Estrada
AU - Garcia, Claude A.
AU - Falk, Thomas
AU - Fellay, Abigail
AU - Ghazoul, Jaboury
AU - Reed, James
AU - Willemen, Louise
AU - Zhang, Wei
AU - Kleinschroth, Fritz
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - Integrated landscape approaches (ILA) aim to reconcile multiple, often competing, interests across agriculture, nature conservation, and other land uses. Recognized ILA design principles provide guidance for implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA in actors, temporal, and spatial scales, inter alia. This diversity hampers learning from and steering ILA because of the intractable nature of the concept. Therefore, we developed a tool—an ‘ILA mixing board’—to structure the complexity of ILA into selectable and scalable attributes in a replicable way to allow planning, diagnosing, and comparing ILA. The ILA mixing board tool presents seven qualifiers, each representing a key attribute of ILA design and performance (for example, project flexibility, inclusiveness of the dialogue, and the centrality of the power distribution). Each qualifier has five (non-normative) outcome indicators that can be registered as present or absent. This process in turn guides planners, evaluators and other participating stakeholders involved in landscape management to diagnose the ILA type, or its performance. We apply the ILA mixing board to three ILA cases in Nicaragua, Madagascar, and the Congo Basin to show some of the many possible configurations of qualifiers on the mixing board. Further application of the tool would allow comparative analysis of the complexity of ILA in a structured and manageable way thereby enhancing the understanding of ILA performance and informing the development of evidence-based land use policy.
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KW - Conservation
KW - Development
KW - Ecosystem management
KW - Governance
KW - Land system science
KW - Natural resource management
KW - Resource conflict
KW - Stakeholder engagement
KW - Wicked problems
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