The book highlights how integrated landscape management can be a useful tool to support local needs and priorities, while also contributing to ambitious global goals, such as the SDGs. 

The book outlines the key elements that form the basis of integrated landscape management, and the tools that can be used for its implementation. It examines the broader governance, market and finance catalysts that can help to achieve sustainable landscapes. It concludes with a set of key recommendations for action to advance the effective use of integrated landscape management around the world.

The Global Canopy Programme has partnered with a range of expert organisations including EcoAgriculture Partners, The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature i and The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) to deliver the seventh Little Book in the seriesii. The authors hope this material will help policymakers charged with delivering on the SDGs, and those engaged in the Rio Conventionsiii negotiations, as well as actors in the private sector, and other practitioners and scholars in this field to better understand and navigate the issues at stake.