Course Topic: Landscape Approach and Planning

Course:
Low emission land use planning

Brief Description:
The course combines multidisciplinary approach to incorporate greenhouse gas emissions (and removal from the atmosphere) be incorporated into a land use planning process to achieve environmentally sustainable land use

Organizing Institution:
RECOFTC-The Center for People and Forests

Course:
Landscape Approach 101

Brief Description:
The Landscape-based Approach is increasingly recognized as an effective mean to address challenges in food security, ecosystem conservation, and climate change. This e-course explains key features of landscape approach, governance and showcases. It presents useful tools in design and implementation of landscape interventions.

Organizing Institution:
World Bank

Course:
Landscape leadership: Cataclyse sustainable development in landscapes

Brief Description:
The course will learn from real-life leaders how they designed and facilitated change to better their landscape. Get the skills to mobilise human resources, manage and resolve conflict and facilitate and motivate stakeholders to achieve SDG-focused sustainable change

Organizing Institution:
Wageningen University

Course:
Landscape finance: Investing in innovation for sustainable landscapes

Brief Description:
Landscape approaches call for innovative interventions that cut across sectors and scales. Public and private funders are ready to invest but there are gaps to bridge. Integrated landscape investments need to be built on shared understandings and motivations between landscape inhabitants and leaders and the world of finance. During this course participants will learn to develop integrated investment strategies to support landscape leaders and investors in their related efforts.

Organizing Institution:
Wageningen University

Course:
Landscape governance: collaborating across sectors and scales

Brief Description:
The course kick-start efforts to unite stakeholders and design governance structures, processes and partnerships embedded in place that capitalize on strengths and balance and mitigate threats

Organizing Institution:
Wageningen University

Course:
The national greenhouse gas inventory for land use

Brief Description:
This course provides the necessary knowledge to build a sustainable national greenhouse gas inventory and assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from the land use sector. It focuses on the biological and physical process that lead to GHG fluxes from land use-related activities.

Organizing Institution:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Course:
Designing MRV systems for entity-level greenhouse gas emissions

Brief Description:
The course Designing MRV Systems for Entity-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions supports policymakers and practitioners in developing GHG reporting programs for collecting emissions data from entities.

Organizing Institution:
World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Bank

Course:
Landscape ecology

Brief Description:
The first MOOC to teach Landscape Ecology where participants learn theory, methods and tools to understand the landscapes we live in and to solve landscape-related environmental problems.

Organizing Institution:
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)

Course:
Asian environmental humanities: Landscapes in Transition

Brief Description:
This course features many researchers from the University of Zurich and international institutions, we will introduce you to some of the most vibrant cultural trends addressing landscape appreciation, degradation, protection, and rehabilitation that currently circulate in the Asian hemisphere.

Organizing Institution:
University of Zurich

Course:
A Business Approach to Sustainable Landscape Restoration

Brief Description:
This course is about landscape degradation – a global and wicked problem that is contributing to the dooming prospect of depletion of Earth’s finite resources. But this course is also about the solutions to this problem – business driven landscape restoration.

Organizing Institution:
Erasmus University Rotterdam through Coursera