Mainstreaming Incentive Systems for Integrated Landscape Management: Lessons from Asia

Mainstreaming incentive systems to encourage integrated management of landscapes and seascapes that incorporate high levels of human production activities requires consideration of cultural, technical, and economic factors. Lessons from Asia include linking livelihood enhancement and ecosystem-service provision, integrating multiple knowledge systems at the landscape level, and implementing broad, performance-based, and innovative incentive systems.

Recommendations:
• Project designers and implementers should integrate the ecological knowledge of locals, scientists, the public, and policymakers in interventions at the landscape level.
• Policymakers should remove barriers to the implementation of effective, efficient, and fair performance-based incentive systems through public- and private-sector funding.
• All stakeholders should facilitate local collective action, capacity building, and development programmes with the participation of both women and men, including young people.