Rationale: Why Landscape Approach?

In reality there are various combination of land uses and land utilisation types, including forestry, estate crops, food crops, fishery, animal husbandry, mining, and infrastructures as public infrastructures and settlement. They are active co-existing in single land area, and they interact and depend to each other. The wholeness of landscape is not well synchronised and need to be maintained continuously and in non-decreasing support to each other in the long term

At the past, the integrated landscape approach was not sufficiently attended, instead they adopted individual sector approach, that can be indicated by the strength of government institutions that were designed based on commodity and allocated with independently land designation. Forests, estates, food drops, animal husbandry, fishery, mining, and infrastructures seemed to be governed by less-synergic institutions. It may be understood that tasks and functions of those government institutions are simpler and practical, even lessening the complexity and dynamics of inter-commodity interactions

The complexity and dynamics of inter-commodity interactions are best addressed by landscape base governance (and management). With that, sustainability may be really attained. However, the landscape approach is certainly not simple matter. Needs for science development is not arguable as the necessary condition for landscape approach

Vision

Center for Sustainable Landscape Science of Instiper offers science based knowledge development and services to deliver governance and management of landscape that meet the specific needs and expectations of the clients and partners

Missions

• Develop knowledge construction in sustainable landscape context

• Generate scientific and practical products with academic excellence

• Organize researches, studies, and develop data and information base relevant to landscape governance and management

• Provide high quality services including but not limited to dissemination of information and knowledge, publication, and consultancy

• Provide coaching and learning services on the implementation of sustainable landscape on site, as match with the local needs and characteristics

Main activities

• Data and information management on sustainable landscape

• Developing theories, concepts, and knowledge frameworks

• Marketing the center products and services as needed by stakeholders

• Developing and managing stakeholders’ network to promote and enhance governance and management of sustainable landscape

• Strengthening cooperations on sustainable landscape, national and internationally

• Fund raising for operation and development of the center

• Capacity building for partners and clients relevant to education and training on Instiper systems

• Conducting campaign, advocacy and knowledge management based on the achievement and implementation of governance and management on sustaianable landscape

Partnership

Strategic partnerships of the Center is categorised into two types

• Strategic partnerships to potential clients and beneficiaries of the Center. These include government institutions that deal with land uses, down to local and village governments; economic operators along the supply chain, of products and services generated on the respective landscapes;

• as well. Strategic partnerships to stakeholders that potentially contribute to the missions of the Center, including: financial institutions, NGOs, academicians, development partners and other economic operators. They are expected to contgribute in line with the missions of the center and take benefits from the information and knowledge generated by the center. They are also expected to contribute in disseminating, trainings, and campaigning on various messages formulated by the Center