Dates
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Region & Country
Status
Completed
Duration
1 week
Course Type
One-Week Training
In May 2017 we held a 5 day course on landscape economics and policy in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Thirty-five people participated in the course, which consisted of the following modules:
Day 1
- Overview of strategic landscape issues and policy
- Linkage of policy, institutions, and practice on the ground
- Sustainable landscape governance framework
- Sustainable development: key principles and application
Day 2
- Basic microeconomics
- Basic macroeconomics
- Government budgetary issues and linkages to landscape policy
- Village development planning and allocation of the village fund
Day 3
- Natural resource economics and policy
- Landscape economics
- Optimizing land-based economic production
- Forestry economics and policy
Day 4
- Land-based information systems and institutionalization of community rights over land resources
- Access and control over land resources from an ethnographic perspective
- Land-based conflict resolution framework
- Opportunities in ongoing policy shifts at the ground level
Day 5
- Economic valuation of natural resources and ecosystem services
- Cost benefit analysis and trade-offs
- Jurisdictional approach to sustainable land use Linkages among
- Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), economic analysis, medium term development planning, and spatial planning
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