Publisher's Synopsis
"The Smithsonian Center for Conservation and Sustainability (CCS) engaged in an innovative project to promote sustainable infrastructure planning through the provision of strategic information and analysis. The CCS developed a modelling tool to help Madre de Dios's stakeholders define a common vision for the future of their region: the Smithsonian Working Landscape Simulator. Smithsonian's Working Landscape Simulator is a carefully-structured, seven-step framework for assessing and facilitating territorial management. This tool combines ecosystem service assessment, scenario planning, and the working landscape framework into a new approach. The CCS team with Madre de Dios stakeholders developed four quantitative scenarios, and modelled land cover changes in the region for each until 2040. The CCS then evaluated a series of 15 indicators quantifying scenario success in three dimensions of sustainability: economic prosperity, human wellbe
