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Designing Nature’s Half:
The Landscape Conservation Podcast
Biweekly discussions featuring interviews with experts in the field of landscape conservation and design.
![🎙️Including Diverse Voices in Sustainable Landscape Design, with Dr. Amanda Sesser](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6568b2ae35e1012bbddef029/1713187627781-K02H55QA5QHG9ONQYL5Q/Amanda+Sesser.png)
🎙️Including Diverse Voices in Sustainable Landscape Design, with Dr. Amanda Sesser
Dr. Amanda Sesser, the Coordinator of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Partnership, discusses the need for inclusive design and decision-making processes that involve diverse stakeholders and empower communities. By bringing together various sectors of society, such as transportation, energy, and conservation, sustainable landscapes can be co-designed, created, and managed for people, planet, and prosperity. The episode emphasizes the need to balance human well-being and ecological integrity – a challenge that requires a new governance model that breaks down silos in traditional planning and decision-making. It addresses historic patterns of inequality and injustice to create a more inclusive and equitable society and highlights the concept of reciprocity and the importance of engaging indigenous and other disenfranchised people.
![🎙️Commonland's 4 Returns: A Path to Sustainable Landscapes, with Willem Ferwerda](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6568b2ae35e1012bbddef029/1713185644867-YJR85K3ILCCYNYP5E2AC/Willem+Ferwerda.png)
🎙️Commonland's 4 Returns: A Path to Sustainable Landscapes, with Willem Ferwerda
Willem Ferwerda, founder of the international non-governmental organization Commonland and former Director of IUCN Netherlands, dives deep into the innovative landscape restoration approach he developed, known as the 4 Returns framework, discussing its potential to inspire hope and drive sustainable change across large landscapes.
![🎙️Empowering Landscape Partnerships: A Journey Towards Sustainability & Resilience](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6568b2ae35e1012bbddef029/1709679407099-BGLR8K1EQUEGBVZYH9X9/Pod_Rob+%26+Tom.png)
🎙️Empowering Landscape Partnerships: A Journey Towards Sustainability & Resilience
Designing Nature's Half: The Landscape Conservation Podcast, hosted by Rob Campellone and Tom Miewald, is a platform dedicated to facilitating learning and inspiring action to combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Through conversations with experts in landscape conservation and design, this podcast aims to empower landscape partnerships to think about, design, and implement actions that further sustainability and resilience.