Toolkit
Mapping Social Landscapes
A Guide to Identifying the Networks, Priorities, and Values of Restoration Actors
This guidebook helps planners understand the priorities, values, and resource use patterns of people within a landscape to improve landscape restoration efforts.
Biophysical opportunities mapping is a well-established technique used in forest and landscape restoration. However, there is also a need to map social opportunities and better understand social landscapes.
This guide provides a methodology for urban leaders to understand landscape governance by mapping the resource flows, priorities, and values of people living and working within a city or specified area. The approach goes beyond the biophysical aspects of a landscape, seeking to understand how people impact restoration and resources. The guidebook focuses primarily on restoration, but the same methodologies can be adapted to broader analysis of natural resource governance. This resource was produced by WRI and is also available in Portuguese and French.
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PEOPLE-CENTERED AND CLIMATE RESILIENT PLACES: PEER-TO-PEER EXCHANGE FOR LATIN AMERICAN CITIES
Hosted in Rotterdam, this P2P Exchange will explore integrated and sustainable urban development strategies to fight climate change and promote livable neighborhoods.
How data and integrated planning approaches can help cities fight air pollution
Poor air quality threatens wellbeing everywhere. Learn how cities in Latin America are taking a data-driven approach to reducing pollution and promoting livability.
How Cities are Beating the (Urban) Heat
From innovative data analytics to urban greening, cities like Cape Town and Medellín are tackling the growing extreme heat crisis head-on.
Integrated Planning and Multilevel Governance: Insights from the UrbanShift National-Local Dialogue in Brazil
The UrbanShift Brazil National-Local Dialogue emphasized the critical role of integrated urban planning and multilevel governance in addressing climate challenges and fostering sustainable development across Brazil’s rapidly growing cities.
