Josh van Vianen

TL;DR: It is suggested that, despite some barriers to implementation, a landscape approach has considerable potential to meet social and environmental objectives at local scales while aiding national commitments to addressing ongoing global challenges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the current evidence base examining the contribution of forest and trees to agricultural production and livelihoods in the tropics, where production often occurs within complex land use mosaics that are increasingly subjected to concomitant climatic and anthropogenic pressures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the implementation of integrated landscape approaches across the tropics and concluded that landscape approaches show potential as a framework to reconcile conservation and development and improve social capital, enhance community income and employment opportunities as well as reduce land degradation and conserve natural resources.

TL;DR: There is a growing disconnect between the international conferences where grand solutions for tropical conservation are designed and the complex local realities in tropical landscapes where plans need to be implemented as discussed by the authors, and there is a tendency for global processes to prescribe simple generalized solutions that provide good sound bites that can be communicated with political actors and the media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 63 main scenarios and 28 global modelling studies to evaluate the potential outcomes on forest cover and their potential impacts on greenhouse gases (GHG) emission/sequestration and global temperature are explored.