Category: Knowledge

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25/04/2023

Seeking synergies to improve landscape management in southern Zambia

Short blog by our CIFOR colleagues on COLANDS and a 9 step approach for Theory of Change and common visioning - in Zambia.

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25/04/2023

Designing for engagement: Insights for more equitable and resilient multi-stakeholder forums

A literature review that looks closely at the importance of engagement, allowing all actors to build trust and respect to ensure an approach that can lead to equitable outcomes.

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25/04/2023

The politics of river basin organizations: institutional design choices, coalitions, and consequences

This paper looks at all aspects of river basin organisations (RBOs), including the inevitable political debates during their formation, and examines lessons learned to make RBOs more effective in the future.

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25/04/2023

Sustainable Exploitation of Renewable Resources

This paper examines the huge number of variables involved in achieving the maximum potential yield in a sustainable manner, and looks at why it is often small-scale community or privately owned institutions that are the most successful at doing it.

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25/04/2023

Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems

This book examines all aspects of adaptive management including the history, theory, and its use in practice that allows stakeholders to modify plans to move forward.

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25/04/2023

Agroecosystem analysis

A systems analysis approach looking at agrosystems and how to ensure true multidisciplinary ways of working together. It concludes with questions for further research.

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25/04/2023

The Role of Multistakeholder Platforms in Environmental Governance: Analyzing Stakeholder Perceptions in Kalomo District, Zambia, Using Q-Method

This empirical study in Zambia's Kalomo District examines stakeholder perceptions of multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) in addressing landscape challenges within a dual land tenure system. Using Q-methodology, the study identifies three narratives: MSPs as fostering dialogue, emphasizing the role of government and private sector, or addressing power imbalances. While the narratives differ, there is consensus on the potential of MSPs to harmonise policies and promote dialogue to tackle landscape challenges.

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24/04/2023

From Ridge to Reef

On the island of Mauritius, home to some of the world's most diverse and ecologically important forests and ecosystems, the Ridge to Reef (R2R) project is restoring and increasing native forest cover. In early 2023, members of our Central Component visited on a learning mission.

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19/04/2023

A Line in the Sand

Could a long line of grass hedge against erosion? An integrated landscape management project in Zimbabwe is proving that it might.

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31/03/2023

A Knowledge Review on Integrated Landscape Approaches

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.

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