LandScale Documentation
  • Profile setup & landscape initiative maturity
  • Assessment guidelines
  • About
  • Get started
    • Get started with LandScale assessments
    • Introduction to the LandScale system
      • LandScale assessment framework
  • Step A (Overview)
    • Set up landscape initiative
    • Define the landscape boundary
      • Boundary limitations and adjacency analysis
    • Provide landscape overview
    • Register assessment team members
    • Develop stakeholder engagement plan
    • Set up documentation storage system
    • Review and submit for validation
  • Step B (Indicator and data selection)
    • Design the assessment scope
    • Select indicators
    • Select metrics
    • Select data resources
      • Analyze data limitations
      • Manage data gaps
    • Review and submit for validation
  • Step C (Results)
    • Process data and assess metrics
    • Visualize and interpret results
    • Set targets and milestones (optional)
    • Identify and register local reviewers
    • Review and submit for first review
      • Address findings from the first review
    • Review and submit for the local review
      • Address feedback from the local review
    • Review and submit for final validation
    • Complete the assessment
  • Additional resources
    • Human rights assessment guidelines
    • Archived resources
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  • LandScale assessment framework (version 1.0)
  • Landscape partnership module
  • Stakeholder engagement plan template
  • Data visualization recommendations
  • Report writing tips
  • Restoration type classification table
  • World ecosystems map and IUCN typology table

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  1. Additional resources

Archived resources

PreviousHuman rights assessment guidelines

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This section includes older resources that may still be useful for reference but are no longer actively maintained.

LandScale assessment framework (version 1.0)

Last updated: October 2021

The LandScale assessment framework—developed through two years of field testing and extensive consultation—provides a common language for assessing landscape sustainability. The most up-to-date version (1.1) is available in the .

The version below, along with the translated copies, does not reflect the updated indicator and metric categorizations introduced in the 2025 refresh. However, it can be cross-referenced with version 1.1.

Landscape partnership module

Last updated: October 2021

This resource was developed to help multi-stakeholder groups at any stage of their development report their activities and progress in a structured manner based on five critical elements of integrated landscape management.

Stakeholder engagement plan template

Last updated: November 2021

This resource was developed to guide the assessment team through the process of building a stakeholder engagement plan for the full scope of the assessment and includes a template for doing so. This process now takes place directly on the platform instead.

Data visualization recommendations

Last updated: August 2022

This resource is a repository for metric assessment and visualizations, providing recommendations and guidance.

Report writing tips

Last updated: August 2022

This resource was developed to help assessment teams summarize the most important details of their landscape assessment in an engaging and easy-to-understand way for report sharing.

Restoration type classification table

Last updated: October 2021

World ecosystems map and IUCN typology table

Last updated: October 2021

This resource builds on the Forest Landscapes Restoration (FLR) typology to generalize and expand it, addressing the full set of ecosystem types and restoration situations that may be encountered in a LandScale assessment. More up-to-date information is available via .

This resource contains the IUCN typology that can be used to standardize ecosystem classification and includes a crosswalk between that typology and the World Ecosystems Map, which LandScale recommends as the default data for relevant metrics. More up-to-date information is available via .

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LandScale assessment framework section
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Assessment framework, version 1.0 (English).pdf
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Assessment framework, version 1.0 (Spanish).pdf
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Assessment framework, version 1.0 (French).pdf
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Assessment framework, version 1.0 (Bahasa).pdf
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Landscape Partnership Module (October 2021).pdf
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Stakeholder Engagement Plan Template (November 2021).docx
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Data Visualization Recommendations (August 2022).xlsx
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Report Writing Tips (August 2022).pdf
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Restoration Type Classification Table (October 2021).pdf
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World Ecosystems Map and IUCN Typology Table (October 2021).pdf
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