Characterizing and Evaluating Integrated Landscape Initiatives

Carmenta, Rachel; Coomes, David A.; DeClerck, Fabrice; Hart, Abigail K.; Harvey, Célia A.; Milder, Jeff; Reed, J. Michael; Vira, Bhaskar; Carmona, Natalia Estrada

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.01.009

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“…Optimization or prioritization tools help to target policy interventions to areas where impacts of interventions may be most effective, or minimize tradeoffs between functions of the land systems (Verhagen et al 2018). These top-down, computational tools are complemented by the advances in landscape approaches, in which co-design of interventions is based on participation of local stakeholders (Carmenta et al 2020). Bringing the top-down allocation and the bottom-up engagement in land system policy interventions together is needed for effective implementation.…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

From land-use/land-cover to land system science

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Lambin

Verburg

2021

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Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

From land-use/land-cover to land system science

Turner

Lambin

Verburg

2021

Ambio

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“…Landscape approaches are advanced as superior to sectoral approaches that often result in conflicting and multiple demands for the same land resources [ 76 , 292 ]. Landscapes are large and complex, providing different habitats where diverse uses can be accommodated [ 41 , 266 ].…”

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Forest landscape restoration: state of play

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Mansourian

2020

R. Soc. open sci.

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Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and restoring biodiversity restoration. The Bonn Challenge and New York Declaration on Forests, motivated by widespread deforestation and forest degradation, call for restoring 350 million ha by 2030 by relying on forest landscape restoration (FLR) processes. Because the 173 million ha commitments made by 63 nations, regions and companies are not legally binding, expectations of what FLR means lacks consensus. The frequent disconnect between top-level aspirations and on-the-ground implementation results in limited data on FLR activities. Additionally, some countries have made landscape-scale restoration outside of the Bonn Challenge. We compared and contrasted the theory and practice of FLR and compiled information from databases of projects and initiatives and case studies. We present the main FLR initiatives happening across regional groups; in many regions, the potential need/opportunity for forest restoration exceeds the FLR activities underway. Multiple objectives can be met by manipulating vegetation (increasing structural complexity, changing species composition and restoring natural disturbances). Livelihood interventions are context-specific but include collecting or raising non-timber forest products, employment and community forests; other interventions address tenure and governance.

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“…Sustainable landscape management is being implemented via landscape-level governance platforms and partnerships throughout the world (Angelstam et al 2019), providing the mechanisms by which the SDGs can become enacted (Reed et al 2016). Hundreds of bottom-up initiatives of sustainable landscape management have been screened continent by continent in a series of publications (Carmenta et al 2020;García-Martín et al 2016;Milder et al 2014;Zanzanaini et al 2017).…”

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Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management

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Agroforestry and sustainable landscape management are key strategies for implementing the UN-Sustainable Development Goals across the world's production landscapes. However, both strategies have so far been studied in isolation from each other. This editorial introduces a special feature dedicated to scrutinizing the role of agroforestry in sustainable landscape management strategies. The special feature comprises eleven studies that adopt inter-and transdisciplinary perspectives, integrating ecological, agricultural, and socioeconomic sciences, and in some cases also practical knowledge. The studies relate to a range of different ecosystem goods and services, and to a diversity of societal sectors (e.g., agriculture, forestry, nature conservation, urban planning, landscape protection) and demands, including their mutual synergies and trade-offs. They inform land-use policy and practice by conceptualizing agroforestry as a set of "nature-based solutions" useful to help tackle multiple societal challenges. The studies encompass four themes: social-ecological drivers, processes, and impacts of changes of agroforestry landscapes; the sustainability outcomes of agroforestry at landscape scale; scaling up agroforestry through multi-stakeholder landscape strategies; and development of conceptual and operational tools for stakeholder analysis in agroforestry landscape transitions. Key steps to harness agroforestry for sustainable landscape management comprise: (i) moving towards an "agroforestry sustainability science"; (ii) understanding local land-use trajectories, histories, and traditions; (iii) upscaling agroforestry for landscape-scale benefits; (iv) promoting the multiple economic, environmental, social, and cultural values of agroforestry; (v) fostering inclusive forms of landscape governance; and (vi) supporting the innovation process of agroforestry system analysis and design.

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Characterizing and Evaluating Integrated Landscape Initiatives

Cited by 34 publications

References 65 publications

From land-use/land-cover to land system science

From land-use/land-cover to land system science

Forest landscape restoration: state of play

Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management

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