Energy and Landscape
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Overview of Landscapes
- What is the Global Landscape Forum?
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is a movement that puts communities first in addressing landscape-level issues, rooted in the framework of the Landscape Approach. Having connected 3,000 organizations and 25,000 people through summits in Warsaw, Lima, London, Paris, Marrakech and Jakarta, along with a further 32 million online, the GLF has become the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable land use.
With science and traditional knowledge at the core, GLF outreach, events and projects are designed not only to spark dialogue, but also follow-through to impact in addressing some of the most complex and multi-stakeholder problems facing our earth and our communities.
Recognizing the multitude of diverse objecties found in landscapes - food, livelihoods, health, energy, biodiversity, business development, trade, climate regulation and water - and the need for holistic approaches, the GLF is founded on four principles, aiming to engage 1 billion people: connecting, sharing, learning and acting.[1]
Energy Technologies and Landscapes
- Energy in Landscapes
- Around Itaipu Dam, restoring forests replenishes water invigorating livelihoods
Financing and Business Models of Landscapes
- Financing and Business Models of Landscapes
- Jobs might grow on trees in Ethiopia
- Q&A: Divestment from fossil fuels points to shift towards sustainable finance
Monitoring & Evaluation of Landscapes
Part of the broader context of Landscape approaches, and the rise of such organisations as the Global Landscapes Forum, has been a new intensity of scientific research, knowledge sharing and standards of oversight, scrutiny and publicly-available information. This revolution has sought to overcome one of the central problems recognised by the landscape approach: a criticial dearth of communication between sectors, particualrly in reference to monitoring and evaluation. In the absence of such practices, it has proven impossible to fully understand the impact of potentially destructive activities and equally difficult to see tehs cope for mutually beneficial policies (Understanding impacts of mining). With a new dawn of consultation and transparency, different parts of the landscape have been able to come togther to deliver sustainable solutions (Success Factors for sustainable bio energy).
Policy Framework
Policy, if sufficently inclusive, consultative and consistent, can become the keystone of integrated and holistic landscape governance. Overcoming silos, even those that exist in policy circles, is an essential step in reconciling the needs, rights and aspirations of different sectors and communities. For government, this may involve more regulatory intervention or, in other cases, a willingness to let issues find resolution in local contexts freed of overbearing administration. (Sustainable forest management)
Climate Change and Landscapes
The issue of climate change sits at the heart of the concerns about sustainability and mututal benefit that govern thinking about landscapes. It embodies the issue of making a future habitable for all, including those with the most to gain in the short term from the unsustainable exploitation of landscapes for whatever reason. As an issue rooted in a time-consistency problem, it is for all concerned parties to exorcise short-termism under the umbrella of scientific rigor. (More than “nice to have” – the real value of tropical forests)
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