Integrated Landscape Management

Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) is the practice of planning how land will be used and resources will be managed in the most efficient and sustainable manner.  It is a mechanism for applying sustainable development to land and resource use through integration among the stages of decision makers, integration across sectors and land uses, and integration over time and space.  ILM embraces a state of balance in which use, conservation and protection are applied appropriately and at the correct scale.

The objective of ILM is to enable decision makers, and society as a whole to set and achieve landscape level objectives for sustainable development including sustainable ecosystems.

Ya’axché is using the Maya Golden Landscape to implement ILM and share the process with others in Belize and beyond.  Implementing ILM includes a plethora of activities many of which are incorporated in Ya’axché’s strategic program areas: Sustainable Land Use Management, Community Outreach and Livelihoods, and Advocacy.