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A practitioner curriculum for Integrated Landscape Management, developed through the EU-funded Landscapes For Our Future programme. Explore concepts and methods here, with foundations, evidence and methodological depth in the full reading.
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How to use the Playbook
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.
The four central concepts are lenses. Most chapters connect mainly to one lens; some link several. Selecting a lens highlights those connections.
Four ways to read
- Glimpse
- The central idea, in about a minute.
- Grasp
- Distinctions and explanations.
- Explore
- Examples and methods in use.
- Deep dive
- Implications, with the full chapter PDF for foundations, evidence and references.
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.
