Spatial Tools for Integrated and Inclusive Landscape Governance: Toward a New Research Agenda

Ros-Tonen, M.A.F.; Willemen, L.; McCall, Michael K.

doi:10.1007/s00267-021-01547-x

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“…They are fundamentally strategies that attempt to enhance landscape governance and are therefore concerned with interactions of people, power, and politics across multiple scales of influence [21,[46][47][48]. For example, ILAs tend to have multiple objectives and lean towards enhancing landscape multifunctionality through regular stakeholder engagement, often through a dedicated multi-stakeholder platform [49][50][51][52]. By spanning sectorial and governance levels, ILAs also aim to be more inclusive with an emphasis on collective action, participatory monitoring, and regular reflection of progress and continual learning through the application of adaptive comanagement [27,49,53].…”

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Assessing the Potential for Private Sector Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Insights from Value-Chain Analyses in Southern Zambia

Upla¹,

Reed

Moombe³

et al. 2022

Land

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Agricultural and forested landscapes in Africa are changing rapidly in response to socio-economic and environmental pressures. Integrated landscape approaches provide an opportunity for a more holistic and coordinated resource management strategy through the engagement of multiple stakeholders. Despite their influence as landscape actors, participation of private businesses in such initiatives has thus far been limited. This study focuses on the Kalomo District in southern Zambia, which provides an example of a rural landscape characterized by high levels of poverty, low agricultural productivity, and widespread deforestation and forest degradation. The study applied a value-chain analysis approach to better understand how the production of four locally important commodities (maize, tobacco, cattle, and charcoal) impacts land use, local livelihoods, and environmental objectives in this landscape, focusing on the role and influence of private sector actors. Data were collected through focus group discussions and key informant semi-structured interviews. Qualitative content analysis was employed to analyze the data and contextualize the findings. Results indicate three key potential entry points for increased private sector engagement: (1) improving water security for smallholders; (2) empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as private sector actors; and (3) collective planning for sustainable landscape activities with deliberate measures to involve private sector actors. We discuss options for optimizing benefits from the identified entry points.

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Assessing the Potential for Private Sector Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Insights from Value-Chain Analyses in Southern Zambia

Upla¹,

Reed

Moombe³

et al. 2022

Land

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“…Given the critical role actor perceptions of landscape dynamics and participatory and spatial tools play in achieving sustainable and inclusive landscape governance (Ros-Tonen and Willemen 2021 ; Ros-Tonen et al 2021 ) and considering the research gap in sub-Saharan Africa and Ghana, this study aims to apply land users’ collective perceptions to simulate the impact of future land-use change scenarios on the provision of locally relevant ESs in southwestern Ghana. The study landscape is known for expanding rubber plantations through out-grower schemes and settlement expansions resulting from oil discovery and mining development (Bugri and Yeboah 2017 ; Asante-Yeboah et al 2022 ).…”

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Participatory and Spatially Explicit Assessment to Envision the Future of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Scenarios on Selected Ecosystem Services in Southwestern Ghana

Asante-Yeboah,

Koo,

Ros-Tonen

et al. 2024

Environmental Management

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Settlement expansion and commercial agriculture affect landscape sustainability and ecosystem service provision. Integrated landscape approaches are promoted to negotiate trade-offs between competing land uses and their reconciliation. Incorporating local perceptions of landscape dynamics as basis for such negotiations is particularly relevant for sub-Saharan Africa, where most people depend on natural ecosystems for livelihoods and well-being. This study applied participatory scenario building and spatially explicit simulation to unravel perceptions of the potential impact of rubber and settlement expansion on the provision of selected ecosystem services in southwestern Ghana under a business-as-usual scenario. We collected data in workshops and expert surveys on locally relevant ecosystem services, their indicator values, and the probable land-use transitions. The data was translated into an assessment matrix and integrated into a spatially explicit modeling platform, allowing visualization and comparison of the impact on ecosystem service provision of land-use scenarios under rubber plantation and settlement expansion. The results show the capacity of current (2020) and future land-use patterns to provide locally relevant ecosystem services, indicating a decline in capacity of ecosystem service provisioning in the future compared to the 2020 land-use patterns, a threat to the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. This highlights urgent need for policies and measures to control the drivers of land-use/land-cover change. Furthermore, the results emphasize the importance of diversifying land-use/land-cover types for sustainable landscape development. The paper contributes new insights into how spatially explicit and semi-quantitative methods can make stakeholder perceptions of landscape dynamics explicit as a basis for implementing integrated landscape approaches.

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“…Aligned with this proposition, our participative approach consists of semi-quantitative assessments – ranking of FES’ importance to the SDGs, and weighting of their interactions – enabling us to output explicit perceptions from the actors involved, i.e., their representation of how the system works. Such participatory mapping tools show great potential to facilitate integrated and inclusive landscape governance (Ros-Tonen et al 2021 ), and are increasingly needed to produce relevant system knowledge (Magliocca et al 2018 ) – which is especially crucial in landscapes with socially contested land claims (Meyfroidt et al 2022 ).…”

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Linking Forest Ecosystem Services to the SDGs: Semi-quantitative Mapping of Perceptions towards Integrated Decision-making

Pham-Truffert,

Pfund

2023

Environmental Management

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With this study, we test and present the results of a reproducible semi-quantitative methodological approach, which enables us to map perceptions of complex systems, linking the forest ecosystem services (FES) of a given spatial level to the wider policy domains represented by the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a participative process, we used integrated forest management and FES as entry point concepts to support and inform dialog towards a normative desired future as framed by the SDGs, taking into account interdependencies across sectors and policy domains. The scales used in the test were national (Switzerland) and international but it is possible to use the approach at any level of integration, especially the landscape one in the case of forest or other ecosystem issues to be transdisciplinary solved. We stress that the semi-quantitative aspects of the approach – be it the ranking of the importance of FES across the different SDGs, or the positive or negative weighting of interactions among these FES in cross-impact matrices – enable the perceptions held by actors to be more explicit and significant for governance or goal prioritization. The results illustrate the perceptions of selected actors on the effects of integrated forest management and provide a basis for multi-actor deliberation on emerging potential synergies or conflicts, thereby genuinely supporting science-policy-practice dialog, which is crucial to foster integrated decision-making.

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Spatial Tools for Integrated and Inclusive Landscape Governance: Toward a New Research Agenda

Cited by 25 publications

References 74 publications

Assessing the Potential for Private Sector Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Insights from Value-Chain Analyses in Southern Zambia

Assessing the Potential for Private Sector Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Insights from Value-Chain Analyses in Southern Zambia

Participatory and Spatially Explicit Assessment to Envision the Future of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Scenarios on Selected Ecosystem Services in Southwestern Ghana

Linking Forest Ecosystem Services to the SDGs: Semi-quantitative Mapping of Perceptions towards Integrated Decision-making

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