TY - JOUR

T1 - Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches

AU - Zafra-Calvo, Noelia

AU - Altmann, Brianne A.

AU - Chowdhury, Koushik

AU - Cortes-Capano, Gonzalo

AU - Flinzberger, Lukas

AU - Heindorf, Claudia

AU - Huber, Jule

AU - Jay, Marion

AU - Kmoch, Laura Marlene

AU - Polas, Abul Bashar

AU - Svobodova, Kamila

AU - Thapa, Pramila

AU - Plieninger, Tobias

PY - 2025/7

Y1 - 2025/7

N2 - Climate and biodiversity crises, conflicts over access to land, water, or food, multiple and overlapping types of land management and livelihoods are some of the players that describe current landscape challenges worldwide. It has been broadly acknowledged that addressing interconnected social and ecological challenges needs integrated solutions at landscape scale. Integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) are governance strategies that deal with these complex social and ecological challenges. Yet, many of these governance strategies lack a nuanced attention to the injustices that manifest themselves in landscape governance, use, and management. These injustices influence the strategies chosen and how they can be reached. In this synthesis, we first identify the injustices that can appear in, and shape a given landscape, empirically illustrating how ILAs can relate to multiple dimensions of justice. We highlight methods suitable for studying injustices in landscapes from an academic perspective. Later, we share and reflect about our positionality, and our experiences of struggling, in harnessing a more transgressive science that engages with landscape justice. We argue that identifying, understanding, and reflecting on how to address injustice in landscape research should become a crucial step in implementing ILAs.

AB - Climate and biodiversity crises, conflicts over access to land, water, or food, multiple and overlapping types of land management and livelihoods are some of the players that describe current landscape challenges worldwide. It has been broadly acknowledged that addressing interconnected social and ecological challenges needs integrated solutions at landscape scale. Integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) are governance strategies that deal with these complex social and ecological challenges. Yet, many of these governance strategies lack a nuanced attention to the injustices that manifest themselves in landscape governance, use, and management. These injustices influence the strategies chosen and how they can be reached. In this synthesis, we first identify the injustices that can appear in, and shape a given landscape, empirically illustrating how ILAs can relate to multiple dimensions of justice. We highlight methods suitable for studying injustices in landscapes from an academic perspective. Later, we share and reflect about our positionality, and our experiences of struggling, in harnessing a more transgressive science that engages with landscape justice. We argue that identifying, understanding, and reflecting on how to address injustice in landscape research should become a crucial step in implementing ILAs.

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - reflexivity

KW - ; landscape approaches

KW - social-ecological interactions

UR - https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=leuphana_woslite&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:001530543400004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL

U2 - 10.5751/ES-16265-300306

DO - 10.5751/ES-16265-300306

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 30

JO - Ecology and Society

JF - Ecology and Society

SN - 1708-3087

IS - 3

M1 - 6

ER -