Investing in landscapes for integrated, inclusive and climate-resilient development

Environment and Natural Resources(ENR) Global Practice - November 2015

This document presents the work of World Bank ENR Global Practice in support of a more integrated approach for managing land and coastal resources sustainably and for multiple purposes and functions - also known as a landscape approach. Managing renewable natural resources in an integrated way across different land uses and connecting them at landscape level provides the basis for enhancing people’s livelihoods, security, and resilience to climate variability and change.

The document outlines a few recent examples including: the great green wall initiative in the Sahel and West Africa; the Amazon sustainable landscapes program; trans frontier conservation areas and tourism development in Mozambique; integrated silvo pastoral approaches to ecosystem management in Latin America; climate adaptation and mitigation program for the Aral Sea Basin; reducing the cost of forests and range lands degradation in Tunisia; biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood improvement in India and Mekong Delta integrated climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods.

The World Bank’s Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice works together with experts across economic sectors to put in place effective programs that prioritize sound natural resource management as the basis for inclusive and resilient growth, then delivers projects that put lives and economies on a more resilient pathway out of poverty.