A home for integrated landscape research and practice: introducing CABI Multifunctional Landscapes

The interconnected global challenges of food and water insecurity, climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, land and resource degradation, economic instability, poverty, inequality and social fragmentation manifest strongly at the landscape scale (Arts et al., 2017). In this context, ‘landscape’ refers to a socio-ecological system defined by its function, history and coherence, at a scale that encompasses key natural systems; provides environmental, social and economic functions; and can be effectively governed by local stakeholders. Sectoral approaches to resolving such challenges have been largely inadequate and have led to damaging impacts and repercussions (e.g. conflicts, marginalization, injustices, degradation) with particular tensions between agricultural production, infrastructure and ecosystem protection.

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