Get started with LandScale assessments
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Our guidelines provide detailed instructions on how to conduct a holistic assessment of your landscape boundary using LandScale. Planning ahead and understanding each step will help ensure an efficient process and high-quality results.
LandScale offers a powerful platform for conducting holistic landscape assessments, helping you capture the essential dynamics of ecosystems, human well-being, governance, and production within your landscape. With LandScale, you can develop meaningful baselines, track progress, and showcase the sustainability impact of your actions over time.
These assessments are more than a tool for measurement—they are a catalyst for collaboration. They engage stakeholders to build a shared vision for the landscape’s future, ensuring that everyone works toward common sustainability goals.
A landscape-level performance baseline is crucial for tracking sustainability progress. Capturing the initial state of your landscape—encompassing ecosystems, human well-being, governance, and production—provides valuable insights into its overall health and highlights areas for improvement. This approach allows you to measure the effectiveness of sustainability efforts over time through baseline assessments and future reassessments, while also engaging relevant stakeholders in shaping a shared vision for the future.
Conducting a landscape assessment with LandScale offers multiple benefits. For instance, it establishes a data-driven foundation for monitoring progress and unlocks performance-based financing opportunities. Further, LandScale’s validation and local review processes enhance the credibility of your results, ensuring they are reliable and trusted by stakeholders.
LandScale simplifies the assessment process with a step-by-step workflow, thorough guidelines, and a library of field-tested indicators and metrics. The platform’s resources—including technical support and customization options—empower you to collect relevant data and tailor the assessment to your landscape’s needs. By leveraging these tools, you can efficiently establish a robust baseline for your landscape and ensure your assessment is both accurate and impactful.
To get started with your assessment, follow these core steps:
Step A: Assemble your team and define the scope of your landscape.
Step B: Select relevant metrics and determine the necessary data for your assessment.
Step C: Review and analyze your data, validate the results, and prepare to present your findings.
Detailed instructions for each step are provided throughout these guidelines, ensuring you have the information needed to conduct a thorough and effective assessment.
Explore landscape assessments completed with LandScale by initiatives from around the world to inspire your own efforts. These examples showcase diverse approaches and outcomes:
