Do integrated landscape approaches moderate climate impacts on livelihoods? A review of the evidence from agricultural landscapes

Duncan, John; Boruff, Bryan; Biggs, Eloise M.; Haworth, Billy Tusker; Wales, Nathan; Bruce, Eleanor

doi:10.1007/s10113-021-01754-6

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“…Human well-being dimensions can be complex and broad in scope; however, key socioeconomic and cultural aspects can be determined as relevant for the ILA, such as health, education, food security, and livelihoods [13]. Human well-being and environmental functioning are interdependent [96].…”

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A Knowledge Review on Integrated Landscape Approaches

Pedroza-Arceo

Weber

Ortega‐Argueta

2022

Forests

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Holistic and multi-transdisciplinary approaches, where multiple goals are achieved in order to improve resilience in societies and ecosystems in the short, medium, and long term, are ideal, even utopian. Hence, science has come together with practical experiences that highlight the importance of working at a ‘landscape’ level. Landscapes, as socio-ecological systems, are key for sustainability and sustainable development, and they represent a realistic unit to interconnect local, national, and ultimately global scales. International efforts regarding holistic natural resources management approaches are not new; however, they are currently pointing to an Integrated Landscape Approach (ILA). Based on a documentation review and analysis, the present article review aims to promote the disambiguation of the ILA concept and provide an updated synthesis knowledge on the ILA. Especially for the forest sector, the ILA has been identified as particularly beneficial, strongly highlighted by the scientific literature, and with an infrastructure of organizations that are encouraging it. The paper presents the rationale of the science behind the concept, as well as the main principles, we identified a variety of definitions with some significant points of overlap, we highlight the inclusion of ILAs in the current international arena and the relationship of ILA’s and Jurisdictional Approaches, and we make a review of the ILA in a challenging world of rapid change. Our review recognizes ILAs socio-ecological management strategy to reconcile conservation, development, climate change, and human well-being goals. ILAs naturally have a social and idealistic construction behind it, which might be just as necessary andsignificant as the journey toward sustainability itself.

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Section: The Integrated Landscape Approach In a Challenging And Evolv...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Knowledge Review on Integrated Landscape Approaches

Pedroza-Arceo

Weber

Ortega‐Argueta

2022

Forests

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Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia

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Actors engaging in integrated landscape approaches to reconciling conservation and development represent multiple sectors and scales and actors with different powers, resource access, and influence on decision-making. Despite growing acknowledgement, limited evidence exists on the implications of power relations for landscape governance. Therefore, this paper asks why and how different forms of power unfold and affect the functioning of multi-stakeholder platforms in southern Zambia. Social network analysis and a power influence assessment reveal that all actors exercise some form of visible, hidden, or invisible power in different social spaces to influence decision-making or negotiate a new social order. The intersection of customary and state governance reveals that power imbalances are the product of actors’ social belongingness, situatedness, and settlement histories. We conclude that integrated landscape approaches are potentially suited to balance power by triggering new dynamic social spaces for different power holders to engage in landscape decision-making. However, a power analysis before implementing a landscape approach helps better recognise power differentials and create a basis for marginalised actors to participate in decision-making equally. The paper bears relevance beyond the case, as the methods used to unravel power dynamics in contested landscapes are applicable across the tropics where mixed statutory and customary governance arrangements prevail.

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Do integrated landscape approaches moderate climate impacts on livelihoods? A review of the evidence from agricultural landscapes

Cited by 2 publications

References 57 publications

A Knowledge Review on Integrated Landscape Approaches

A Knowledge Review on Integrated Landscape Approaches

Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia

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