CABI is delighted to announce the launch of CABI Multifunctional Landscapes. This is a new international, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing integrated landscape research through inclusive, transdisciplinary, and practice-oriented research. CABI Multifunctional Landscapes is developed in close partnership with 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000 Landscapes), a global collaboration working towards a shared vision of thriving, sustainable landscapes.
The new journal emerges from extensive consultation with researchers, experts, practitioners, and policymakers working to support multifunctional landscapes. Feedback shows strong enthusiasm for a dedicated publication addressing the growing demand for evidence, policy insight, and practical lessons that support healthy landscapes and resilient economies. The journal aims to become a central hub for applied and integrative landscape knowledge, consolidating work that is currently scattered across multiple disciplines and publications. It also seeks to foster cross-learning between diverse communities of practice and research such as bioregional, territorial, and other place-based regenerative development.
“The launch of CABI Multifunctional Landscapes is wonderful news, and the timing could not be better. The field of integrated landscape management has matured and truly deserves a dedicated journal,” commented Dr. Sara J. Scherr, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder and Advisor of 1000 Landscapes. “This journal will support a new wave of place-based development for people, nature, and regenerative economies. It’s very exciting to be part of this project, and I encourage others to get involved too.”
CABI Multifunctional Landscapes brings together ecological, social, economic, and governance perspectives, with a strong emphasis on practical application, interdisciplinary collaboration, and stakeholder participation. In addition to research articles, the journal actively welcomes case studies, policy insights, and constructive reflections on unsuccessful or challenging initiatives, thereby helping to accelerate learning across the sector.
“CABI has worked in Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) for many years, so launching this journal is a natural extension of our mission, especially given the clear needs of the communities concerned,” said Dr. Hariet Hinz, Director Invasive Alien Species Management, CABI. “The CABI Landscapes Initiative brings together key stakeholders and funders, and we are delighted to extend this work through a new journal and to collaborate with 1000 Landscapes in this vital area.”
Landscape research developed in the 1980s, initially with a focus on nature conservation and ecosystem management. It then broadened to encompass agricultural production, poverty alleviation, climate and regenerative development. The concept of Integrated Landscape Management was formally acknowledged at the Nairobi International Forum of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative in 2012, and continues to gain momentum across science, policy, and practice. Over the past two decades, multifunctional landscape management has increasingly been recognised as the preferred approach to address complex, interlinked, global challenges through locally led systemic solutions.
CABI will share further updates on the journal’s development soon, including author guidelines and submission timelines.
About CABI Multifunctional Landscapes
CABI Multifunctional Landscapes advances integrated landscape research and practice by providing a platform for critical dialogue on how integrated approaches, such as Integrated Landscape Management, bioregional and territorial development, can reconcile community wellbeing and economic resilience with environmental sustainability. The journal embraces a broad definition of “landscape” from locally-defined socioecological areas, to defined jurisdictions and indigenous territories, to wider ecoregions and bioregions. These may include a range of component cropping and pastoralist systems, forests, urban and peri-urban areas, coastal zones, and natural ecosystems.
CABI Multifunctional Landscapes is a ‘gold’ open access journal. Article processing charges (APCs) will be waived during the launch period. Thereafter, CABI will charge a fair APC in line with its other journals. Corresponding authors from 1000 Landscapes partner organizations are eligible for a discount on APCs. CABI Multifunctional Landscapes is part of CABI’s growing portfolio of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals in the life sciences.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sara J. Scherr, Co-Founder and Advisor of 1000 Landscapes
Senior Editors: Professor Terry Sunderland, University of British Colombia; Professor Mirjam Ros Tonen, University of Amsterdam; Dr. Bemmy Granados, Persimmon Co-Lab; Dr. James Reed, CIFOR-ICRAF
About Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000 Landscapes)
1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000 Landscapes) is a coalition of organizations united in a shared mission to advance local landscape efforts to sustain and restore ecosystems, build rural prosperity, confront climate change and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Our goal is that by 2030, landscape partnerships will deliver sustainable solutions across 1000 landscapes for 1 billion people–aligning actions to meet global targets for addressing food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. 1000 Landscapes is building the infrastructure to help landscape partnerships connect and ally with one another, strengthen their capacities and leadership, access digital data and tools for greater impact, and mobilize financing to scale landscape investment.
CABI has been an active partner of 1000 Landscapes since 2024.
About the CABI Landscapes Initiative
The CABI Landscapes Initiative is a global programme that uses an Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) approach and brings together key stakeholders and funders to work alongside CABI to increase support for and application of ILM. CABI’s current ILM projects focus on land restoration, including the sustainable management of invasive alien plants that have cross-sectoral negative impacts on human and animal health, biodiversity, and livelihoods. The initiative contributes to CABI’s strategic goal of safeguarding biodiversity and supporting the sustainable use of natural resources. CABI Multifunctional Landscapes will support CABI’s work in this important area.
For further information, contact:
Erika Newton
Journals Publisher, CABI
E-mail: E.Newton@cabi.org
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