The challenge was demanding, but many excellent professionals accepted it: create an infographic that depicts landscape approaches: what they are and why they are needed. While we received many high quality entries, the jury decided to recognize designs created specifically in response to ours and our partner’s call (On Think Tanks).
The winning entry was created by Jessica Webb, Celine Jialing Lim, Abbie Baertl, Karena Mahung, and Beatriz Zavariz from Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. It is called “Land Management in Central Mexico – Why do we need Landscape Approaches to land management”. They developed it from interviews with the staff of the Civil Council of Sustainable Silviculture (CCMSS), a Mexican NGO, about a landscape approach to a community land management project in central Mexico.
All full size infographics will be available on landscapes.org soon after the Global Landscapes Forum 2014. Watch this space!
The infographic identifies many of the benefits a landscape approach can achieve for integrated land management. The design also highlights key challenges people are facing when they want to reconcile competing land-use demands and manage trade-offs. The jury particularly appreciated the inclusion of a real-world case study.
The 2nd prize was awarded to Mohit Lakhmani, for his infographic “Why do we need landscape approaches to land management?” This entry manages to clearly capture the main concepts crucial to understanding what a landscape approach is.
This is a selection of the other designs we have received:
Arief Indrawan Abbas, Hilda Lionata and Astrid Leoni, produced an infographic about Burung Indonesia’s landscape approach implemented in Mbeliling, West Flores, Indonesia for the past five years.
Kate Bronstein, Benjamin Gil, Shari Lambert and Heather Farr from RTI International submitted an interactive infographic Black Carbon and Its Effects on Health and Climate.
Lam Cheuk Yin, Lam Heung Ping and Kwok So Ting from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University produced a short a video called Why do we need landscape approaches to land management?
Jessica Holly, a student of design strategy and innovation submitted a static infographic about water resources and how forests can play a key role in safeguarding them.
Johan Meijer (PBL), Sarah van der Horn (PBL) and Wilbert van Rooij (Plansup), on behalf of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, submitted the BETA version of their new website, a dynamic map visualization of competing land-use claims in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Identification of competing spatial stakeholder claims – Applying a Landscape Approach concept to West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
“Forested landscapes provide services; deforestation puts lives at risk,” is a static infographic submitted on behalf of Jonah Busch, Sara del Fierro, Jens Engelmann, Aaron King, and John Osterman, of the Center for Global Development (Washington, DC). The infographic was produced in collaboration with Bittersweet Creative Group (Washington, DC).
Finally, we took note of these excellent interactive infographics, recently released by Farming First:
– The Story of Agriculture and Climate Change – depicting the evolution of how the COP process has addressed agriculture and forestry issues,
– Food and Farming in 2030 which explores how unsustainable agriculture could affect food, people and the planet in the future,
– Africa’s Agricultural Potential, depicting the challenges and opportunities within Africa’s agricultural landscape.
Congratulations to all participants!
