Measuring the effectiveness of landscape approaches to conservation and development

Sayer, Jeffrey; Margules, Chris; Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni; Sunderland, Terry; Langston, James Douglas; Reed, J. Michael; Riggs, Rebecca Anne; Buck, L. E.; Campbell, Bruce M.; Kusters, Koen; Elliott, Chris; Minang, Peter A.; Dale, Allan; Purnomo, Herry; Stevenson, Jàmes R.; Gunarso, P.; Purnomo, Agus Budi

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“…Multi-criteria assessments can provide tools for achieving spatially optimal solutions that empower adat management through a landscape approach process [62,63]. Landscape scale governance learning processes could adhere to new measurement principles that ensure societal beneficial landscape outcomes [28].…”

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“…WWF was our institutional entry-point for building landscape-level governance coalitions, with whom we had previous collaboration. We assert that building a landscape-level process of determining objectives, measuring progress to meet those objectives, and reflecting on lessons learned must be undertaken with the participation of all stakeholders [28]. The sustainable livelihoods framework's capital assets provide our framework for determining landscape explicit assets [51].…”

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“…The landscape approach is the latest iteration of attempts to integrate conservation and development in defined geographic spaces [28]. A landscape approach is defined as "A long-term collaborative process bringing together diverse stakeholders aiming to achieve a balance between multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives in a landscape or seascape" [28].…”

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“…A landscape approach is defined as "A long-term collaborative process bringing together diverse stakeholders aiming to achieve a balance between multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives in a landscape or seascape" [28]. The landscape approach seeks to address global challenges of poverty alleviation, food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss [29].…”

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“…Primarily, landscape approaches are a question of governance. The most recent research identifies how landscape practitioners might measure governance processes, recognizing that process is vital to contextualizing and then achieving desirable and sustainable outcomes [28]. Landscape approaches provide a conceptual framework to make long-term improvements to conservation and production by engaging and empowering local stakeholders [30].…”

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Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presented by rapidly spreading estate crops in the frontier of the agricultural market economy. Smallholder communities are subject to considerable speculation by outsiders, yet large-scale agriculture presents tradeoffs that they must navigate. We initiated a study in Sintang, West Kalimantan in 2012 and have returned annually for the last four years, building the baselines for a longer-term landscape approach to reconciling conservation and development tradeoffs in situ. Here, the stakeholders are heterogeneous, yet the land cover of the landscape is on a trajectory towards homogenous mono-cropping systems, primarily either palm oil or rubber. In one village on the frontier of the agricultural market economy, natural forests remain managed by the indigenous and local community but economics further intrude on forest use decisions. Conservation values are declining and the future of the forest is uncertain. As such, the community is ultimately attracted to more economically attractive uses of the land for local development oil palm or rubber mono-crop farms. We identify poverty as a threat to community-managed conservation success in the face of economic pressures to convert forest to intensive agriculture. We provide evidence that lucrative alternatives will challenge community-managed forests when prosperity seems achievable. To alleviate this trend, we identify formalized traditional management and landscape governance solutions to nurture a more sustainable landscape transition.

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Forest Landscape Restoration for Environmental Management

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Sector, Landscape or Rural Transformations? Exploring the Limits and Potential of Agricultural Sustainability Initiatives through a Cocoa Case Study

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Phillips

2018

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This paper analyses the changing nature of sustainability initiatives and their capacity to tackle sustainability challenges, focusing on cocoa in West Africa, and distilling lessons pertinent across agro‐export industries and regions. Using data from empirical studies, literature review and consultations with key cocoa actors, we find ‘sustainable’ cocoa at a critical juncture. Applying an existing theoretical framework that distinguishes between resilience, transition and transformation of systems, we explore and analyse previous, current and future sustainability responses. We conclude that there are important innovations and upscaling of investment occurring in the cocoa sector on sustainability, but also that current approaches risk achieving only incremental change, helping to sustain the industry under deteriorating conditions (resilience), without enabling smallholders to claim rights and greater representation (transition) or tackling more fundamental root causes of the vulnerability of smallholders (transformation). Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Measuring the effectiveness of landscape approaches to conservation and development

Cited by 142 publications

References 61 publications

Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Forest Landscape Restoration for Environmental Management

Sector, Landscape or Rural Transformations? Exploring the Limits and Potential of Agricultural Sustainability Initiatives through a Cocoa Case Study

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