Integrated Landscape Ecology. Cranfield University

As a result of the National Ecosystem Assessment in the UK, there is a new demand for land management professionals with quantitative and integrative landscape capabilities. They will be required to cover topics from ecosystem services to biodiversity and agriculture. Worldwide, 90% of ecosystems are managed by humans and now international attention is focusing on landscape level strategies to address the integration between biodiversity and natural capital for the provision of ecosystem services. As a response to these new market requirements we believe an integrated landscape ecology approach is the way forward to understand the effects of landscape structure and dynamics on the conservation of biodiversity, provision of ecosystem services and sustainability of rural livelihoods.