Livable Landscapes: An interactive eBook is a resource for action and a conversation starter in addition to being a guide. This book was written to help development practitioners, partner governments, and World Bank teams comprehend the growing problem of land degradation and investigate workable, integrated solutions that can bring our natural environment back to balance.
At its core, this eBook emphasizes the value of an integrated landscape approach, which views land as a living system of ecosystems, economies, and people rather than merely geography. We can address some of the most important problems of our day, such as poverty, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, climate change, and water stress, by managing landscapes holistically. This includes innovation related to policies and regulations, technology (digital and physical) and financing.
This eBook draws upon evolving global practices, lessons and insights. Through clear explanations, real-world examples, and interactive tools, this eBook walks users through the drivers of land degradation, the evolving innovations making a difference, and the partnerships needed to scale up solutions that last.
Whether you’re a policymaker, project manager, researcher, or someone passionate about restoring our planet’s health, this eBook offers insights, strategies, and inspiration. We have designed it for use, revisiting, and sharing, as we can only create livable landscapes together. Innovative annexes also provide interactive tools related to relevant data and knowledge resources for landscapes around the world.
This is a core product of the Livable Landscapes Academy, which is a 10-year program of the World Bank Knowledge Academy. It is intended that this eBook will be updated with all your inputs to be a valuable resource.
This Livable Landscapes Academy eBook is being developed by a large team, with much of the research and interactive e-packaging facilitated by the KIDS (Knowledge, Information, and Data Services) Helpdesk at the World Bank Group.