Work Programme Item: Landuse Planning Issues

IUCN and ICMM have agreed to explore and evaluate, with others, the potential of integrated planning and management at the landscape and seascape level and its use by governments as a tool for achieving balanced development and conservation outcomes. The ownership of the topic is ICMM, and the Dialogue is intended to provide the opportunity for development of a paper, with input from ICMM and IUCN, that outlines issues and challenges and provides guidance on more strategic and participatory approaches to land use planning, from the perspectives of governments, conservation community, local and indigenous communities and the industry. It will also convene a meeting of key interested organisations in order to take this work forward as necessary and useful.

In March 2004 UNESCO convened a meeting of several interested organisations, including IUCN and ICMM to discuss a Landscape Level Planning initiative. The outcome of that meeting was support for the initiative from a variety of sectors including conservation organisations and industry groups. UNESCO will thus be carrying forward the initiative together with the assistance of the Cambridge Centre for Conservation Policy. IUCN and ICMM will participate in the initiative.

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