James Reed has worked for The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia, since June 2013 as a member of their landscapes and food systems team. James has a background in ecology with a particular interest in ecosystem service provision. His current research interest is primarily concerned with strategies to reconcile competing land uses through integrated landscape management. He recently led CIFOR and partner’s review of integrated landscape approaches in the tropics that charts the development of landscape approach theory and identifies where, and how effectively, such initiatives have implemented.