How can a landscape perspective contribute?

Perspective from the organisers

Anders Malmer

Director SLU GlobalProfessor

Putting the 2030 agenda into practice, 23rd November 2016

A long history of landscape terminology may complicate dialogue?Human geographyHow the land has been shaped by socio-economic processes

Physical scienceDescribe the result of the edaphic processes like geology and climate added with vegetation and the physical result of human land-use

Cultural landscapeRepresents something in-between, defined and used eg. for defining world heritages as "cultural properties” representing the combined works of nature and of man

Landscape architects Works with aesthetic and utility values

The landscape unit is increasingly used in the“global rural development and sustainable

intensification discourse”

Google search for ”landscape approaches” gave 87 300 000 hits this Monday.

Global landscapes forum is the largest side event to the climate COP’s in later years. (replacing agric day and forest day)

Forest and landacape restoration is a major committment by FAO, NGO’s, governements and regional bodies.

Climate smart landscapes, multifunctional landscapes, etc. are hot buzzwords.

The benefit of discussing a landscape may be to find a unit that includes and integrates components of:

1) aspects of land and land-uses important for local livelihoods

2) and their connection to markets and government/policy units

3) as well as the physical area for major ecological processes and services.

Benefits

smaller than a region but larger (or not smaller than) than a village land-use interest zone

include different biophysical components (upland, lowland, cultivation, grasing, forest, river, etc.)

Include land uses in a mosaic of coarser or more fine grid as well as villages, small town, small and large farms, wood lots, forests, etc.

Is it a spatial unit?

In this seminar we want to give example and discuss how a landscape perspective can contribute to understand the complex interlinks betweeen goals within the 2030 agenda and thus better focus on their implementation.

Think: Landscape for multidiciplinary and holistic framing of global challanges on a local scale.It may take different forms for various specific settings and needs.

Arable land increased with 200 milj ha in 50 years.In another 20 years it needs to increase another 80 – 150 milj haOn the side of other bio-based production and urban expansion…

Lambin & Mayfroidt 2011

Is there land enough for food, fibre and fuel for 2030?

Land-use expansion may be physically possible, but probably outside safe planetary boundaries for deforestation, biodiversity and other aspects.

According to World Resources Institute there are 2 000 milj ha of degraded land (forests and converted forests) that may be subject to restoration for

increased bio-based production.

Most landscapes suitable for ”restoration” are filled with people and change has to include them.

Mosaic landscape in terms of :Ecosystems, land-use, stakholders and stakeholder dependence-areas, ownership, tenure, etc.

Ecology

Land Use

Production

Soil

Diversification

LivestockInstitutional change

Livelihood

Markets

Tenure change

Cultural change, Popu-lation dynam-

ics

Infra-structure

Can the landscape be the frame for understanding and driving change for Agenda 2030?

Local people

Thanks for your intrest / Questions?

Anders.Malmer@slu.sewww.slu.se/slu-global

Thank you for listeningAnd have a good discussion today