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Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2013
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Title
Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2013
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1210595110
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Authors

Jeffrey Sayer, Terry Sunderland, Jaboury Ghazoul, Jean-Laurent Pfund, Douglas Sheil, Erik Meijaard, Michelle Venter, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono, Michael Day, Claude Garcia, Cora van Oosten, Louise E. Buck

Abstract

"Landscape approaches" seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. Here we synthesize the current consensus on landscape approaches. This is based on published literature and a consensus-building process to define good practice and is validated by a survey of practitioners. We find the landscape approach has been refined in response to increasing societal concerns about environment and development tradeoffs. Notably, there has been a shift from conservation-orientated perspectives toward increasing integration of poverty alleviation goals. We provide 10 summary principles to support implementation of a landscape approach as it is currently interpreted. These principles emphasize adaptive management, stakeholder involvement, and multiple objectives. Various constraints are recognized, with institutional and governance concerns identified as the most severe obstacles to implementation. We discuss how these principles differ from more traditional sectoral and project-based approaches. Although no panacea, we see few alternatives that are likely to address landscape challenges more effectively than an approach circumscribed by the principles outlined here.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 25 1%
Brazil 12 <1%
Australia 10 <1%
Canada 6 <1%
Netherlands 5 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Colombia 5 <1%
France 5 <1%
Kenya 3 <1%
Other 33 1%
Unknown 2378 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 489 20%
Student > Master 447 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 411 17%
Student > Bachelor 170 7%
Other 140 6%
Other 369 15%
Unknown 461 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 845 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 542 22%
Social Sciences 194 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 84 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 51 2%
Other 181 7%
Unknown 590 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 218. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 February 2024.
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#3,447
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#1,126
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Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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