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1 - The Emergence of Landscape Stewardship in Practice, Policy and Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2017

By
Tobias Plieninger  and
Claudia Bieling
Edited by
Claudia Bieling  and
Tobias Plieninger
Claudia Bieling
Affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart
Tobias Plieninger
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
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Summary

Landscape stewardship is an emerging sustainability paradigm. This introductory chapter clarifies the rationale, history, terminology and relevance of landscape stewardship for science and practice. In the understanding of this book, landscape stewardship (1) seeks to simultaneously improve heritage, food production, biodiversity and/or ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods and particularly acknowledges the interconnections between social justice and environmental health; (2) works at a landscape scale and includes deliberate planning, policy, management or support activities at this scale; (3) involves inter-sectoral coordination or alignment of activities, policies or investments at the level of ministries, local government entities, farmer and community organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors and/or the private sector; (4) is self-organised and highly participatory, supporting adaptive, collaborative management within a social learning framework; and (5) values a diversity of perspectives and ‘ways of knowing’, including local and indigenous knowledge of landscapes and natural resources.
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The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship , pp. 1 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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