Core Criteria for Mature Landscape Initiatives

The power of landscape initiatives lies in aligning interests and priorities of key stakeholders, including local communities, practitioners, market actors, and local governments around collective goals, actions, and investment so that they are better able to finance and address the system conditions needed to achieve long-term sustainability impacts at a landscape scale.

With increasing interest and engagement in landscape initiatives, it is critical that all stakeholders have a simple and consistent understanding of the core elements of a mature landscape initiative. Twenty leading landscape practitioner organizations have come together to agree to those core criteria and accompanying subcriteria, as well as present six ways in which they can be used.