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Landscape Leadership: Catalyse Sustainable Development in Landscapes
Course
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4 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
1. Introduction to Landscape Leadership
You'll start the course by looking at yourself as a potential leader and from thereyou'll meet fellow learners, instructors and landscape leaders
2. Distributed Leadership
In this module, you'll explore the multi-stakeholder and shared nature of landscape
leadership as well as how to encourage collaboration and promote collective decisionmaking
for shared benefits.
3. Facilitation of Leadership
Here, you'll learn about the facilitative function of leadership and the art of facilitation
of complex processes in landscapes. You'll hear from experts who'll share their tips
and tricks.
4. When Leadership Gets Difficult
This module will prepare you for the inevitable challenge of competing claims and
conflict. You'll learn about key principles of negotiation and how to move from conflict
to collaboration and shared decision-making.
5.Innovation in Landscape
This module will centralise innovation in your thinking on leadership. It will help you cultivate and nurture innovation in your landscape and show that stimulating innovation is the key to landscape transformation.
6.Put Your Knowledge into Action
Here, you'll apply your newly-acquired knowledge and skills to your own landscape challenge. You'll share and learn with fellow course participants and reveal your leadership.
Prerequisite
The prerequisites are a BA/BSc or higherlevel certificate in financial/business/economic fields or social sciences, and a minimum of one year's academic or professional engagement in landscapes or development finance.
Instructors
Cora van Oosten
Learning Coordinator @ Global Landscapes Forum / Senior Programme Manager @ Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
Wageningen University & Research
Salina Abraham
Youth Leader Youth in Landscapes
Global Landscapes Forum | International Forestry Students’ Association
Editor
Wageningue University is located in Wageningue, the Netherlands. Its campus is located on the outskirts of the city, which allows it to plan numerous extensions to its premises, all of which are already ultra-modern, due to its scientific nature. The university focuses on life sciences, sociology, business relations and natural resources.
In particular, the University is home to the Alterra Institute for multidisciplinary research into the artificial and man-made environment (rural environment, urban ecology, green spaces, green webs).
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