Engaging multiple stakeholders to reconcile climate, conservation and development objectives in tropical landscapes

Reed, J. Michael; Barlow, Jos; Carmenta, Rachel; Vianen, Josh van; Sunderland, Terry

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108229

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“…Discussing ways to improve governance, workshop participants often would stress the need for some kind of multi-stakeholder process, to bring stakeholders together to discuss, negotiate, and develop common solutions to challenges in the landscape. This is in concordance with literature on landscape approaches and integrated landscape initiatives, which stress the importance of multi-stakeholder arrangements, enabling processes of negotiation, learning, and adaptation between diverse stakeholders across scales, sectors, and knowledge systems [2][3][4][5]35]. Efforts to implement a landscape approach often aim to develop or strengthen institutional arrangements for multi-stakeholder processes, for example in the form of platforms, coalitions, forums, partnerships, and co-management boards.…”

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“…These are spaces where public, private, and civil society actors can discuss their respective agendas, and collaboratively identify options to balance the various interests that exist in the landscape [12,36,37]. Failure to develop a common agenda, and effectively engage different stakeholders is seen as a main cause of poor performance of landscape approaches [2,38].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate change, food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, and related threats to the well-being of people and planet are increasing the interest of policy makers, practitioners, and the private sector in landscape approaches, through which these challenges can be addressed in an integrated manner [1,2]. Landscape approaches usually promote multi-functionality in terms of agricultural, livelihood, conservation, and climate objectives, and stress the need for iterative processes of understanding, negotiation, and decision-making among different stakeholders [3][4][5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inclusive Landscape Governance for Sustainable Development: Assessment Methodology and Lessons for Civil Society Organizations

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Landscape governance refers to the combination of rules and decision-making processes of civic, private, and public actors with stakes in the landscape, that together shape the future of that landscape. As part of the Green Livelihoods Alliance, a program that supports civil society organizations (CSOs) to strengthen the governance of tropical forested landscapes, we developed and implemented a method that facilitates stakeholders to assess the status of governance in their own landscape and to identify options for improvement. In this article, we aim to reflect on landscape governance, based on our work within the Green Livelihoods Alliance. We present the method, summarize the results of its implementation, and draw practical lessons regarding the role of CSOs to improve landscape governance. We conducted workshops with stakeholders in 17 forested landscapes across 10 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. During each workshop, participants scored and discussed a set of governance indicators, developed a common vision for landscape governance, and identified the practical steps that would need to be taken to achieve that vision. Analyzing the results from the workshops, we found that landscape stakeholders tend to perceive that: opportunities to influence decision-making are unequal; integrated landscape planning efforts remain noncommittal; and implementation and enforcement of regulations is weak. To improve governance in the future, it is common to call for the development of multi-stakeholder processes, to allow different actors to discuss, negotiate, and develop collaborative action to address landscape-level challenges. CSOs can support such processes, by helping to develop a shared understanding of landscape governance, differences in interests, and possibilities for collaborative action. CSOs can also help stakeholders to develop multi-stakeholder procedures, and build trust and capacity among stakeholders to take an active role in such processes.

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“…The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil updated their guidelines in 2018 to recommend an average water table depth of 50 cm, ranging between 40 and 60 cm (RSPO ). For successful restoration, agreement is needed on the aim and most appropriate methods (Reed et al ). Yet, limited research explores the range of perspectives on ecological restoration in tropical peatlands.…”

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Wading through the swamp: what does tropical peatland restoration mean to national‐level stakeholders in Indonesia?

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Ecological restoration is considered to play an important role in mitigating climate change, protecting biodiversity, and preventing environmental degradation. Yet, there are often multiple perspectives on what outcomes restoration should be aiming to achieve, and how we should get to that point. In this study we interview a range of policymakers, academics, and non‐governmental organization (NGO) representatives to explore the range of perspectives on the restoration of Indonesia's tropical peatlands—key global ecosystems that have undergone large‐scale degradation. Thematic analysis suggests that participants agreed about the importance of restoration, but had differing opinions on how effective restoration activities to date have been and what a restored peatland landscape should look like. These results exemplify how ecological restoration can mean different things to different people, but also highlight important areas of consensus for moving forward with peatland restoration strategies.

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“…Yet decentralization is still highly relevant. With the current interest in "landscape" or jurisdictional approaches to mitigate emissions from land use change and support sustainable alternatives (Hsu et al, 2017;Reed et al, 2019), it is important to understand how carbon forestry 1 has engaged with and/or (re)shaped decentralization and the role of subnational governments (SNGs).…”

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Forestry Decentralization in the Context of Global Carbon Priorities: New Challenges for Subnational Governments

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Larson

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Engaging multiple stakeholders to reconcile climate, conservation and development objectives in tropical landscapes

Cited by 66 publications

References 82 publications

Inclusive Landscape Governance for Sustainable Development: Assessment Methodology and Lessons for Civil Society Organizations

Inclusive Landscape Governance for Sustainable Development: Assessment Methodology and Lessons for Civil Society Organizations

Wading through the swamp: what does tropical peatland restoration mean to national‐level stakeholders in Indonesia?

Forestry Decentralization in the Context of Global Carbon Priorities: New Challenges for Subnational Governments

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