Integrated Landscape Management brings people, practices and decisions together across a landscape to address connected social, economic and environmental concerns. This Playbook is for practitioners and partners working with that complexity.
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The ILM Playbook is a practitioner curriculum developed through the EU-funded Landscapes For Our Future programme. Use the web edition for a quick route through the concepts and methods, and the full reading for foundations, evidence and methodological depth.
New to the Playbook? Follow Landscape → Systems → Power → Practices → Design and implementation.
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The four central concepts are lenses. Most chapters connect mainly to one lens; some link several. Selecting a lens highlights those connections.
Credits
The concepts, methods and practical guidance draw on the Central Component’s work with project teams, partners and practitioners, and on learning generated across participating landscapes.
- Developed by
- Landscapes For Our Future Central Component, Landscape Alliance
- Lead writing and synthesis
- Kim Geheb
- Conceptual development, review and editorial contributions
- Khalil Walji, Mieke Bourne and Dominique le Roux (Landscape Alliance); Marcela Galvis-Hernandez (FAO Colombia); Camila Alvarenga, Lucimara Marcelino, José Luís Monteiro and Rogério Rosa (Oikos)
- Design and production
- Dominique le Roux and Elinore de Lisle
- With contributions from
- Landscapes For Our Future project teams and partners across 36 countries
Playbook glossary
- Strand
- An actor group and the practices through which it shapes the landscape over time.
- Heavy and light strands
- A strand is heavy when its practices strongly shape other strands; a light strand has less influence in return. Weight concerns influence, not the importance or worth of the people involved.
- Heading
- The direction in which the landscape is currently moving, produced by many actors and their interactions.
- Alternative Heading
- A better direction an intervention seeks to support, revised as it learns. It is not a fixed blueprint for a final state.
- Regulation
- Any way actors shape what others can or cannot do, including rules, money, prices, custom and persuasion. It is broader than government regulation.
- Give
- Room for movement: a condition in which the system may be shifted.
- Interaction space
- Where strands meet and influence one another. It can extend beyond the landscape’s geographic boundary.
- Foment
- A small, deliberate, time-bound intervention designed to test and influence how the system responds.
- Ferment
- A group of foments. The word is intentional: several small interventions can work together.
- Ripple
- An effect that spreads from an initial disturbance but weakens unless something sustains it. In the Playbook, it may remain dependent on the intervention.
- Cascade
- Change that becomes self-reinforcing: responses trigger further responses, so the intervention no longer supplies every push. It can spread harm as well as benefit.
- Power Vista and strand map
- A map of who influences whom, through which practices and with what weight. The full reading treats the Power Vista as a strand map read through power relations.
- Practice map
- A map of the meanings, materials and competencies that sustain a practice, and the relationships that shape them.
- MMC
- Meanings, materials and competencies: what a practice means, what it needs and the skills and know-how through which it is performed.
