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
their
implementation,
yet
application
remains
challenging,
a
strong
performance
evidence-base
is
be
formed.
A
comprehensive
literature
review
focus
group
discussions
with
practitioners
identified
considerable
diversity
of
in
actors,
temporal,
spatial
scales,
inter
alia.
This
hampers
learning
from
steering
these
integrated
planning
because
its
intractable
nature.
Therefore,
we
developed
tool—an
‘ILA
mixing
board’—to
structure
the
complexity
into
selectable
scalable
attributes
replicable
way
allow
planning,
diagnostics,
comparative
assessment
ILA.
The
board
tool
presents
seven
qualifiers,
each
representing
key
attribute
such
as
project
flexibility,
inclusiveness
dialogue,
centrality
power
distribution.
Each
qualifier
has
five
(non-normative)
outcome
indicators
that
can
registered
present
or
absent.
process
turn
guides
planners,
evaluators
participating
stakeholders
involved
management
diagnose
type,
performance.
We
apply
diagnostic
three
cases
Nicaragua,
Madagascar,
Congo
Basin
show
some
many
possible
configurations
qualifiers
on
board.
Overall,
allows
analyses
structured
manageable
way.
Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
74(1), P. 94 - 113
Published: Feb. 28, 2024
Abstract
Settlement
expansion
and
commercial
agriculture
affect
landscape
sustainability
ecosystem
service
provision.
Integrated
approaches
are
promoted
to
negotiate
trade-offs
between
competing
land
uses
their
reconciliation.
Incorporating
local
perceptions
of
dynamics
as
basis
for
such
negotiations
is
particularly
relevant
sub-Saharan
Africa,
where
most
people
depend
on
natural
ecosystems
livelihoods
well-being.
This
study
applied
participatory
scenario
building
spatially
explicit
simulation
unravel
the
potential
impact
rubber
settlement
provision
selected
services
in
southwestern
Ghana
under
a
business-as-usual
scenario.
We
collected
data
workshops
expert
surveys
locally
services,
indicator
values,
probable
land-use
transitions.
The
was
translated
into
an
assessment
matrix
integrated
modeling
platform,
allowing
visualization
comparison
scenarios
plantation
expansion.
results
show
capacity
current
(2020)
future
patterns
provide
indicating
decline
provisioning
compared
2020
patterns,
threat
benefits
humans
derive
from
ecosystems.
highlights
urgent
need
policies
measures
control
drivers
land-use/land-cover
change.
Furthermore,
emphasize
importance
diversifying
types
sustainable
development.
paper
contributes
new
insights
how
semi-quantitative
methods
can
make
stakeholder
implementing
approaches.
RaumFragen: Stadt - Region - Landschaft,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 719 - 728
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Governance
bedeutet
Steuern
und
Koordinieren
mit
dem
Ziel
des
Managements
von
Interdependenzen
zwischen
kollektiven
Akteuren.
Governance-Prozesse
überschreiten
die
Grenzen
Staat
Gesellschaft,
in
der
politischen
Praxis
fließend
geworden
sind.
Für
Landschaftsforschung
bietet
Governance-Ansatz
einen
Mehrwert,
weil
er
erstens
eine
Mehrebenen-Perspektive
auf
Rolle
Handelns
bei
Konstruktion
Landschaften
erlaubt
zweitens
ermöglicht,
spezifische
Governance-Formen
den
Blick
zu
nehmen,
hierbei
wirksam
Heliyon,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
9(11), P. e21785 - e21785
Published: Nov. 1, 2023
Integrating
Indigenous
and
local
knowledge
in
conservation
natural
resource
management
(NRM)
initiatives
is
necessary
to
achieve
sustainability,
equity,
responsiveness
realities
needs.
Knowledge
integration
the
starting
point
for
converging
different
systems
enabling
co-production.
This
process
also
a
key
prerequisite
towards
decolonising
research
process.
However,
power
imbalances
may
perpetuate
dominant
forms
of
over
others,
obstruct
integration,
eventually
cause
loss
marginal
less
powerful
holders.
Despite
increasing
interest
conservation,
NRM,
landscape
governance,
documentation
processes
remains
fragmented
somewhat
scarce.
semi-systematic
literature
review
contributes
filling
this
gap
by
synthesising
methods,
procedures,
opportunities,
challenges
regarding
integrating
NRM
Southern
Africa.
The
findings
demonstrate
that
despite
an
number
studies
seeking
integrate
scientific
relevant
opportunities
are
poorly
vaguely
documented,
colonial
legacies
often
overlooked.
Documentation,
valuing
knowledge,
addressing
relations,
collaboration
across
missing
steps
efficient
integration.
paper
concludes
there
need
further
policies.
These
should
address
methods
implications
equitable
move
beyond
sharing
mutual
learning
NRM.
Land,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
12(3), P. 580 - 580
Published: Feb. 28, 2023
In
multifunctional
landscapes,
expanding
economic
activities
jeopardise
the
integrity
of
biodiverse
ecosystems,
generating
conservation-development
trade-offs
that
require
multi-stakeholder
dialogue
and
tools
to
negotiate
conflicting
objectives.
Despite
rich
literature
on
participatory
mapping
other
reveal
different
stakeholder
perspectives,
there
is
limited
evidence
application
such
in
landscape-scale
negotiations.
This
paper
addresses
this
gap
by
analysing
a
process
Ghana’s
Western
Wildlife
Corridor,
where
community-based
landscape
governance
system
called
community
resource
management
area
(CREMA)
exists.
Data
from
three
workshops
focus
group
discussions
with
institutional
actors
increasing
demand
for
food
natural
resources
climate
change
impacts
are
drivers
degradation,
resulting
declining
faunal
floral
biodiversity
reduced
ecosystem
services.
Meanwhile,
prioritise
expansion
farming
land,
while
forest
conservation.
However,
scenario
building
helped
communicate
each
other’s
aims
reach
negotiated
consensus.
Finally,
power
relations,
cultural
traditional
rules,
differences
knowledge
affected
deliberations
decision-making.
We
conclude
can
contribute
an
inclusive
approach,
provided
well-functioning
platforms
place
facilitators
adequately
navigate
imbalances
recognise
kinds
degrees
knowledge.
