A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management
Sustainable land management is at the heart of some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It is critical for tackling biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change and the decline of ecosystem services. It underpins food production, livelihoods, dietary health...
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| author | Daniel F. McGonigle Daniel F. McGonigle Giulia Rota Nodari Robyn L. Phillips Ermias Aynekulu Natalia Estrada-Carmona Sarah K. Jones Izabella Koziell Eike Luedeling Roseline Remans Keith Shepherd David Wiberg Cory Whitney Wei Zhang |
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| description | Sustainable land management is at the heart of some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It is critical for tackling biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change and the decline of ecosystem services. It underpins food production, livelihoods, dietary health, social equity, climate change adaptation, and many other outcomes. However, interdependencies, trade-offs, time lags, and non-linear responses make it difficult to predict the combined effects of land management decisions. Policy decisions also have to be made in the context of conflicting interests, values and power dynamics of those living on the land and those affected by the consequences of land use decisions. This makes designing and coordinating effective land management policies and programmes highly challenging. The difficulty is exacerbated by the scarcity of reliable data on the impacts of land management on the environment and livelihoods. This poses a challenge for policymakers and practitioners in governments, development banks, non-governmental organisations, and other institutions. It also sets demands for researchers, who are under ever increasing pressure from funders to demonstrate uptake and impact of their work. Relatively few research methods exist that can address such questions in a holistic way. Decision makers and researchers need to work together to help untangle, contextualise and interpret fragmented evidence through systems approaches to make decisions in spite of uncertainty. Individuals and institutions acting as knowledge brokers can support these interactions by facilitating the co-creation and use of scientific and other knowledge. Given the patchy nature of data and evidence, particularly in developing countries, it is important to draw on the full range of available models, tools and evidence. In this paper we review the use of evidence to inform multiple-objective integrated landscape management policies and programmes, focusing on how to simultaneously achieve different sustainable development objectives in diverse landscapes. We set out key success factors for evidence-based decision-making, which are summarised into 10 key principles for integrated landscape management knowledge brokering in integrated landscape management and 12 key skills for knowledge brokers. We finally propose a decision-support framework to organise evidence that can be used to tackle different types of land management policy decision. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9aca80698cf141b8824342f24f9dbbad2022-12-22T02:37:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2020-03-01410.3389/fsufs.2020.00013505855A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape ManagementDaniel F. McGonigle0Daniel F. McGonigle1Giulia Rota Nodari2Robyn L. Phillips3Ermias Aynekulu4Natalia Estrada-Carmona5Sarah K. Jones6Izabella Koziell7Eike Luedeling8Roseline Remans9Keith Shepherd10David Wiberg11Cory Whitney12Wei Zhang13The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Rome, ItalyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London, United KingdomThe Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomWorld Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, KenyaThe Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Montpellier, FranceThe Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Montpellier, FranceCGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaInstitute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) - Horticultural Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, GermanyThe Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Montpellier, FranceWorld Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, KenyaCGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaInstitute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) - Horticultural Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, GermanyEnvironment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United StatesSustainable land management is at the heart of some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It is critical for tackling biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change and the decline of ecosystem services. It underpins food production, livelihoods, dietary health, social equity, climate change adaptation, and many other outcomes. However, interdependencies, trade-offs, time lags, and non-linear responses make it difficult to predict the combined effects of land management decisions. Policy decisions also have to be made in the context of conflicting interests, values and power dynamics of those living on the land and those affected by the consequences of land use decisions. This makes designing and coordinating effective land management policies and programmes highly challenging. The difficulty is exacerbated by the scarcity of reliable data on the impacts of land management on the environment and livelihoods. This poses a challenge for policymakers and practitioners in governments, development banks, non-governmental organisations, and other institutions. It also sets demands for researchers, who are under ever increasing pressure from funders to demonstrate uptake and impact of their work. Relatively few research methods exist that can address such questions in a holistic way. Decision makers and researchers need to work together to help untangle, contextualise and interpret fragmented evidence through systems approaches to make decisions in spite of uncertainty. Individuals and institutions acting as knowledge brokers can support these interactions by facilitating the co-creation and use of scientific and other knowledge. Given the patchy nature of data and evidence, particularly in developing countries, it is important to draw on the full range of available models, tools and evidence. In this paper we review the use of evidence to inform multiple-objective integrated landscape management policies and programmes, focusing on how to simultaneously achieve different sustainable development objectives in diverse landscapes. We set out key success factors for evidence-based decision-making, which are summarised into 10 key principles for integrated landscape management knowledge brokering in integrated landscape management and 12 key skills for knowledge brokers. We finally propose a decision-support framework to organise evidence that can be used to tackle different types of land management policy decision.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00013/fullintegrated landscape managementmulti-functional landscapessustainable agricultural intensificationnatural resource managementdecision supportknowledge broker |
| spellingShingle | Daniel F. McGonigle Daniel F. McGonigle Giulia Rota Nodari Robyn L. Phillips Ermias Aynekulu Natalia Estrada-Carmona Sarah K. Jones Izabella Koziell Eike Luedeling Roseline Remans Keith Shepherd David Wiberg Cory Whitney Wei Zhang A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems integrated landscape management multi-functional landscapes sustainable agricultural intensification natural resource management decision support knowledge broker |
| title | A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management |
| title_full | A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management |
| title_fullStr | A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management |
| title_short | A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management |
| title_sort | knowledge brokering framework for integrated landscape management |
| topic | integrated landscape management multi-functional landscapes sustainable agricultural intensification natural resource management decision support knowledge broker |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00013/full |
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