Poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss continue to persist as the
primary environmental and social challenges faced by the global community. As such, there …

Landscape approaches have become en vogue in the past couple of decades. Originating
from nineteenth-century landscape geography, this renewed popularity since the 1980s is …

Ghana's protected forest reserves have suffered average annual deforestation rates of 0.7%,
0.5%, 0.4%, and 0.6% for the periods 1990–2000, 2000–2005, 2005–2010 and 2010–2015 …

Continued overexploitation of natural resources and the associated impacts of climate
change threaten the sustainability and biodiversity of our global social-ecological …

Voluntary standards and certification schemes aim to play an important role in the creation of
a more sustainable production of agricultural commodities in the South. In this paper, we …

Landscape approaches attempt to achieve balance amongst multiple goals over long time
periods and to adapt to changing conditions. We review project reports and the literature on …

Integrated landscape initiatives typically aim to strengthen landscape governance by
developing and facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms. These are institutional coordination …

This Editorial introduces a special issue that illustrates a trend toward integrated landscape
approaches. Whereas two papers echo older “win–win” strategies based on the trade of non …

Context Achieving sustainable development as an inclusive societal process, and securing
sustainability and resilience of human societies as well as the natural environment are …

Achieving equitable and sustainable development that supports climate change mitigation
targets and avoids biodiversity loss remains a leading, and intractable challenge in many …