Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
68(5), P. 611 - 618
Published: Oct. 15, 2021
Participatory
spatial
tools-community
mapping,
PGIS,
and
others-find
increasing
resonance
among
research
non-governmental
organizations
to
make
stakeholder
claims
community
perspectives
explicit
for
more
inclusive
landscape
governance.
In
this
paper,
we
situate
the
use
of
participatory
tools
in
debates
on
integrated
approaches
development.
We
show
that
using
such
is
not
new
but
argue
their
application
governance
requires
a
agenda
focuses
expanding
scope
tools,
improving
inclusivity
processes,
developing
technologies.
Environmental Policy and Governance,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 11, 2025
ABSTRACT
To
address
biodiversity
loss
and
other
negative
environmental
effects
of
land
use,
science
policy
are
increasingly
recognising
multi‐functional
landscape
governance.
This
approach
involves
place‐based
policymaking
across
multiple
governance
levels,
engaging
various
stakeholders
balancing
values
functions.
Due
to
the
complexity
involved,
calls
have
been
made
for
additional
research
addressing
institutional
challenges,
coherence
practical
tools
frameworks.
article
introduces
a
novel
framework
analysing
in
governance,
designed
be
useful
both
researchers
policymakers
use
contexts.
The
exploratory
is
inspired
by
frameworks
such
as
European
Landscape
Convention
IPBES
draws
from
two
literatures
on
coherence.
By
applying
this
framework,
users
can
systematically
analyse
trade‐offs
synergies
between
multiple,
interacting
policies,
with
focus
landscape,
multi‐functionality
throughout
processes.
study
includes
an
illustrative
application
EU
Biodiversity
Strategy
Swedish
Forest
Strategy,
revealing
lack
series
parameters
relevance
protection,
including
critical
instruments.
concludes
identifying
areas
that
warrant
further
advance
thereby
potentially
improve
protection.
Sectorial
approaches
to
land
management
have
singularly
failed
fully
integrate
the
fields
of
forestry,
agriculture,
health,
infrastructure
development,
education,
etc.This
has
led
a
scattergun
approach
solving
problems
related
both
biodiversity
conservation
and
socio-economic
development.As
response,
integrated
landscape
been,
under
various
names,
at
forefront
sustainable
development
discourse.Such
been
advocated
as
means
achieving
global
commitments
well
reconciling
oft-competing
uses.Over
past
20
years,
forests
landscapes
in
which
they
occur
central
focus
research
strategy
actions
Center
for
International
Forestry
Research
(CIFOR).While
great
strides
made
"theory"
approaches,
evidence
success
on
ground
remains
elusive.Managing
their
entirety
is
complex,
with
need
reconcile
needs
aspirations
multiple
stakeholders
interests.We
action
test
our
theories,
we
honestly
evaluate
impacts
such
actions.The
COLANDS
initiative,
funded
by
Climate
Initiative
(IKI)
German
Federal
Ministry
Environment,
Nature
Conservation,
Building
Nuclear
Safety
real-life
attempt
identifying
what
works
scale
and,
perhaps
importantly,
doesn't.This
book,
coming
around
halfway
into
implementation
COLANDS,
presents
sanguine
overview
differing
geographical,
social
political
contexts
selected
each
target
country
-Indonesia,
Zambia
Ghana
-and
identifies
main
drivers
that
dynamic
influence
trajectories
change
each.This
first
describe
opportunities
constraints
landscape-scale
integration
uses,
negotiating
just
role
organizations
CIFOR
partners
can
play
creating
world
characterized
self-supporting
landscapes.Only
honest
evidence-based
reporting,
presented
this
will
know
if
truly
answer
numerous
facing
contemporary
environment
wider
society.We
spent
many
years
"talking
talk"
-now
time
"walking
walk".
Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
68(5), P. 611 - 618
Published: Oct. 15, 2021
Participatory
spatial
tools-community
mapping,
PGIS,
and
others-find
increasing
resonance
among
research
non-governmental
organizations
to
make
stakeholder
claims
community
perspectives
explicit
for
more
inclusive
landscape
governance.
In
this
paper,
we
situate
the
use
of
participatory
tools
in
debates
on
integrated
approaches
development.
We
show
that
using
such
is
not
new
but
argue
their
application
governance
requires
a
agenda
focuses
expanding
scope
tools,
improving
inclusivity
processes,
developing
technologies.
