Integrated landscape approaches for sustainable land use

Integrated landscape approaches reconcile competing land-use claims in multifunctional, dynamic environments by emphasizing adaptive management, stakeholder involvement, and multiple objectives. Based on ten principles derived from literature and practitioner consensus, these approaches support sustainable development, conservation, and resilience across agriculture, forestry, mining, and environmental goals. Key principles include continual learning, common concern entry points, multiple scales, multifunctionality, negotiated change logic, clarified rights, participatory monitoring, resilience, and capacity building. The framework enables inclusive governance, trade-off negotiation, and synergy maximization across sectors, actors, and spatial-temporal scales, particularly in Mediterranean landscapes where Landlabs offer practical application.