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Add to Preferred SourcesEquipping youth, “green” entrepreneurs and mid-career professionals with the skills they need to drive the development of sustainable landscapes is the goal of the Landscape Academy, the first digital learning platform on the “landscape approach.”
The Academy was officially launched at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn in December 2018. It is a one-stop-shop for the best available online education opportunities on all topics related to the landscape approach.
The landscape approach is a land use and management theory that seeks to simultaneously reconcile competing land uses to achieve social, environmental and economic goals. It focuses on multi-stakeholder participation in decision-making and management to understand the processes of change, provide solutions at multiple scales and improve the resilience of local communities and their environments.
Balancing different land uses and goals certainly requires technical expertise, but anyone who has ever tried to push for healthier landscapes knows this also takes leadership, management of partnerships and relationships between stakeholders, and the ability to mobilize financial resources—skills that go beyond the scope of any single discipline.
The certified online courses are designed by the Global Landscapes Forum in collaboration with the UN Environment and the Wageningen Centre, while other courses from various institutions are also available, held both online and offline around the world.
What will put landscapes on the fast-track to sustainability are empowered professionals, present and future, that take advantage of every available opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills. The Landscape Academy may well provide some of the broadest and informative learning opportunities yet.
Original source: UN Environment
Published on 01 February 2019