Integrated Landscape Policy and Economics

In May 2017 we held a 5 day course on landscape economics and policy in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Thirty-five people participated in the course, which consisted of the following modules:

Day 1

• Overview of strategic landscape issues and policy
• Linkage of policy, institutions, and practice on the ground
• Sustainable landscape governance framework
• Sustainable development: key principles and application

Day 2

• Basic microeconomics
• Basic macroeconomics
• Government budgetary issues and linkages to landscape policy
• Village development planning and allocation of the village fund

Day 3

• Natural resource economics and policy
• Landscape economics
• Optimizing land-based economic production
• Forestry economics and policy

Day 4

• Land-based information systems and institutionalization of community rights over land resources
• Access and control over land resources from an ethnographic perspective
• Land-based conflict resolution framework
• Opportunities in ongoing policy shifts at the ground level

Day 5

• Economic valuation of natural resources and ecosystem services
• Cost benefit analysis and trade-offs
• Jurisdictional approach to sustainable land use Linkages among
• Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), economic analysis, medium term development planning, and spatial planning