The value of landscape restoration | Building an ecosystem restoration industry

We rely on healthy ecosystems to provide us with our food, water, clean air, climate stability, social and economic wealth, even our happiness and well-being. Commonland, an international organization working on large scale, holistic landscape restoration, believes we can only build an ecosystem restoration industry together – uniting stakeholders to work together to restore ecosystems, within a clear landscape framework that we all understand. Based on 7 years of building a proof of concept in landscapes worldwide, Commonland has developed the 4 Returns Framework. A practical and holistic approach to transform degraded ecosystems into vibrant landscapes and communities. To assess the monetary value of social, natural and financial returns of landscape restoration, Commonland has recently launched a method to calculate the integrated value of landscape restoration for farmers and landowners, private investors, governments and NGOs.