Editorial: integrating local landscape management in a globalized world - practices and pathways

Abstract

Agricultural landscapes are changing worldwide along different trajectories and in different local contexts. Understanding how to better manage the interaction of driving forces with local landscape sustainability is a key research area. Landscape researchers also have a role to play in identifying workable solutions; in supporting policy- making and institutional design; and in participating in the development of models for new and sustainable landscape management practices. Case studies of innovative practices as presented here are one way to identify types of solution and characteristics that may be useful exemplars for bridging between policy-makers and landscape experts on the one side, and those who manage the landscape on the other, and highlight potentially fruitful areas and questions for future inquiry.