Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes

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Autoren

  • Patrick O. Waeber
  • Rachel Carmenta
  • Natalia Estrada Carmona
  • Claude A. Garcia
  • Thomas Falk
  • Abigail Fellay
  • Jaboury Ghazoul
  • James Reed
  • Louise Willemen
  • Wei Zhang
  • Fritz Kleinschroth

Externe Organisationen

  • Berner Fachhochschule (BFH)
  • ETH Zürich
  • University of East Anglia
  • Alliance Bioversity International
  • Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
  • International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)67-77
Seitenumfang11
FachzeitschriftEnvironmental Science and Policy
Jahrgang147
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Sept. 2023
Extern publiziertJa

Abstract

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 implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA in actors, temporal, and spatial scales, inter alia. This diversity hampers learning from and steering ILA because of the intractable nature of the concept. Therefore, we developed a tool—an ‘ILA mixing board’—to structure the complexity of ILA into selectable and scalable attributes in a replicable way to allow planning, diagnosing, and comparing ILA. The ILA mixing board tool presents seven qualifiers, each representing a key attribute of ILA design and performance (for example, project flexibility, inclusiveness of the dialogue, and the centrality of the power distribution). Each qualifier has five (non-normative) outcome indicators that can be registered as present or absent. This process in turn guides planners, evaluators and other participating stakeholders involved in landscape management to diagnose the ILA type, or its performance. We apply the ILA mixing board to three ILA cases in Nicaragua, Madagascar, and the Congo Basin to show some of the many possible configurations of qualifiers on the mixing board. Further application of the tool would allow comparative analysis of the complexity of ILA in a structured and manageable way thereby enhancing the understanding of ILA performance and informing the development of evidence-based land use policy.

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Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes. / Waeber, Patrick O.; Carmenta, Rachel; Carmona, Natalia Estrada et al.
in: Environmental Science and Policy, Jahrgang 147, 09.2023, S. 67-77.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelForschungPeer-Review

Waeber, PO, Carmenta, R, Carmona, NE, Garcia, CA, Falk, T, Fellay, A, Ghazoul, J, Reed, J, Willemen, L, Zhang, W & Kleinschroth, F 2023, 'Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes', Environmental Science and Policy, Jg. 147, S. 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.003
Waeber, P. O., Carmenta, R., Carmona, N. E., Garcia, C. A., Falk, T., Fellay, A., Ghazoul, J., Reed, J., Willemen, L., Zhang, W., & Kleinschroth, F. (2023). Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes. Environmental Science and Policy, 147, 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.003
Waeber PO, Carmenta R, Carmona NE, Garcia CA, Falk T, Fellay A et al. Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes. Environmental Science and Policy. 2023 Sep;147:67-77. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.003
Waeber, Patrick O. ; Carmenta, Rachel ; Carmona, Natalia Estrada et al. / Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes. in: Environmental Science and Policy. 2023 ; Jahrgang 147. S. 67-77.
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