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= Landscape-scale conservation = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Landscape-scale conservation is a concept that has arisen in response to both the challenges of climate change and a perceived excessive focus on site based conservation. It aims to take a holistic approach, looking not just at biodiversity issues, but also issues such as local economies and agriculture, eco-tourism, geodiversity and the health and social benefits of the environment.

Hard to define but growing consensus on these aspects: multijurisdictional, multipurpose, multistakeholder and operate at various geographic scales. More likely to be defined by natural attributes such as basins or migrating corridors than by man made divisions.

In Practice
Regional collaboration between people of different backgrounds that share the same landscape. Governance and processes are adapted to each regional need, as i s level of formality.

Challenges faced: Lack of adequate scientific information that expands homogenously over target regions. Lack of information on how large landscape conservation initiatives an be structured and achieve success. lack of capacity of stakeholders to engage meaningfully beyond their localities or subject matters. burdensome coordination efforts, lack of shared polices that facilitate implementation by different jurisdictions. fragmented financial resources.

Relevance in the context of Climate-Change
On-theground actions are designed in the context of broader geographic scales to account for likely shifts in species distributions, to sustain ecological processes, and to promote collaboration. (Climate smart)