What shapes success in Integrated Landscape Management (ILM)? While quantitative analysis can help identify patterns, Kim Geheb argues that many of the factors that matter most – trust, relationships, local leadership and the ability to "read" a landscape – are often harder to measure, but no less important.

Why do some landscape initiatives gain momentum while others struggle to endure? In this preview of a forthcoming paper, George Schoneveld reflects on lessons from 15 landscapes and the factors that seem to make the biggest difference.

The Paisajes Sostenibles (Sustainable Landscapes) project sought to strengthen environmental governance while testing innovative strategies to improve local livelihoods in a context marked by ecological degradation, institutional fragmentation and low levels of trust among actors.

What does it take to move from dialogue to lasting governance in complex landscapes? In Bolivia’s Chiquitanía region, the answer began with watershed management.

As the only non-scientist on the team, it's been fun to watch my Central Component colleagues going "soft" ? over the course of this programme. Here's what surprised them.

Progress might require a meandering route in politically sensitive, ecologically important, and operationally challenging settings. Recent experiences from our landscapes in Latin America and the Caribbean illustrate how adaptive learning offers a way forward.

“Landscapes are complex systems, Kim Geheb, Coordinator of our programme’s Central Component points out. So we should be thinking about Integrated Landscape Management from a systemic perspective, he argues. And then: how do we change system direction?

Landscape condition and sustainability depends on what its stakeholders are doing. ILM practitioners cannot, therefore, avoid considering stakeholder activities. This Landscapes in Practice paper provides an overview of the key concepts and the tools and resources available for learning more.

SHARED is a tailored method for stakeholder engagement with evidence, managing relationships and brokering multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral partnerships.

The recent call to halt biodiversity loss by protecting half the planet has been hotly contested because of the extent to which people might be excluded from these landscapes. The authors of this paper argue that it is clear that incorporating landscapes that implicitly work for indigenous people is vital to achieving any sustainable targets. They examine an attempt to balance the trade-offs between conservation and development in Enonkishu Conservancy in the Maasai Mara, using a working landscape approach