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Structuring the Complexity of Integrated Landscape Approaches into Selectable, Scalable, and Measurable Attributes

Version 1 : Received: 11 August 2022 / Approved: 15 August 2022 / Online: 15 August 2022 (04:35:26 CEST)

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Waeber, P.O.; Carmenta, R.; Carmona, N.E.; Garcia, C.A.; Falk, T.; Fellay, A.; Ghazoul, J.; Reed, J.; Willemen, L.; Zhang, W.; et al. Structuring the Complexity of Integrated Landscape Approaches into Selectable, Scalable, and Measurable Attributes. Environmental Science & Policy 2023, 147, 67–77, doi: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.; et al. Structuring the Complexity of Integrated Landscape Approaches into Selectable, Scalable, and Measurable Attributes. Environmental Science & Policy 2023, 147, 67–77, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.003.

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 their implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. A comprehensive literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners identified considerable diversity of ILA in actors, temporal, and spatial scales, inter alia. This diversity hampers learning from and steering these integrated planning approaches because of its intractable nature. 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, diagnostics, and comparative assessment of ILA. The ILA mixing board tool presents seven qualifiers, each representing a key attribute of ILA design and performance such as 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, and or its performance. We apply the ILA mixing board as a diagnostic tool 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. Overall, the tool allows comparative analyses of the complexity of ILA in a structured and manageable way.

Keywords

Land system science; governance; natural resource management; resource conflict; conservation; development; stakeholder en-gagement; ecosystem management; wicked problems

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

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