Restoring landscapes all around the world.
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Healthy landscapes provide food, water, clean air, stable climate, shelter, energy, livelihoods, life and meaning. Unfortunately, landscapes across the globe are degrading at a rapid rate. We believe that landscape restoration offers tremendous untapped opportunities for sustainable economic development. Globally, about 2 billion hectares can be restored.
That’s why we have taken the initiative for this learning platform: to enable a global community of academics, practitioners, policy makers, environmental and business professionals to meet each other and to share and exchange their knowledge, expertise and first-hand experiences with landscape restoration.
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Read about different landscapes and their 4 returns approaches in practice.
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4 Returns Business Model Canvas
Africa Wood Grow
Rehabilitating the Langkloof and Baviaanskloof catchments
The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group
Crowther Map
Restoration Evidence
Soil Navigator (EU)
OpenLandMap
Large-scale woodland restoration on a volcanic subarctic island
Sustain: The Australian Food Network
University of Western Australia – Centre for Social Impact
RegenWA
Regional regeneration of Western Australia
Restoring the landscape by building a movement
A new Dutch polder landscape
Opportunities for positive change through grazing management in rural areas of Kyrgyzstan
Nature^Squared: Connecting Ecology & Economics
CAMP Alatoo Public Foundation
The Nature Conservancy India
The IKEA Foundation
Presencing Institute
Land Life Company
Rewilding Europe
ReNature Foundation
United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC)
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
SAI Platform
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Ecosystem Restoration Camps
Peace Parks Foundation
4 Returns Monitoring
Landscape Finance Lab
UN Environment
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
Convention on Biological Diversity
Society for Ecological Restoration
World Resources Institute
EcoAgriculture Partners
wij.land
Almendrehesa
AlVelAl
Wide Open Agriculture
Grounded
Living Lands
Nova School of Business & Economics
Spanish National Research Council
Partnerships Resource Centre
Rotterdam School of Management, Business & Society Management (RSM-BSM)
Commonland
Where tradition and traceable products meet
Maps Altiplano Estepario in Spain
Collaborative landscape restoration after mining operation in Ghana
Aaron Minnick
Alexandra Tsiadi
Andreea Nanu
Sonigitu Asibong Ekpe
Ashley M Studholme
Bela Jankovich
Berglind Orradóttir
Águeda Carreño Espinosa.
Jeffrey North
Cristobal Sierra
Daniel
Danielle de Nie
Dennis
Dietmar Roth
Dyon Temming
Eline van de Veen
Elvira Marin
Emil
Erica ten Broeke
Eva Rood
Immo Fiebrig
Franz Fraitzl
Gertjan
Gijs Boers
Rianne C ten Veen
Heitor Campos de Sousa
Hugo Stekelenburg
John van Duursen
Jan Meertens
Johan van Putten
Jordi Pietx
Joris de Vente
Katrín Björnsdóttir
Kris Devéria
Kristel Bottinga
Ying Li
Marco de Redelijkheid
mahmoud khalaf
Marc Dekens
Martin Havik
Matthijs Boeschoten
Max Wohlgemuth Kitslaar
Marielle Horst-Gussenhoven
Mira Haddad
Manuel Montijano
Myrte
Nicholas Berry
Opaline Lysiak
Patrick Rutten, CEFA
Pieter Ploeg
Roos van der Deijl
Jacob Mwaluda Kipongoso
Sarah
Stuart McAlpine
Sylvia Hartinger
Tamas Turcsan
Tea by Me
Tessa Snaterse
Tom Collins
Wim van Zomeren
Wim van der Zwan
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This site is full of interesting stories, tools and organisations. And, we are constantly adding new stuff. So please feel free to browse and get familiar with all the content and how it is related.
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If you become a member of the 4 returns platform, you can customize the content to your taste. You also can see and meet other members and show your skills to them. New members join every day, so keep coming back.
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4returns wants to support you in your work and to make it easier to connect to other professionals in the field of landscape restoration. We improve the platform constantly. Soon you will find jobs, more events and the possibility to discuss issues. Please share your experience with us. We love to hear it.
Landscape stories
Where tradition and traceable products meet
Nomadic herding husbandry has been the economic backbone of Mongolia for centuries, but is now contributing to severe landscape degradation across the Mongolian plateau due to recent increase in the number of livestock and unsustainable grazing practices.
Collaborative landscape restoration after mining operation in Ghana
A small scale fish farm in Ghana was established to feed the local community with quality fish stocks while at the same time restoring the landscapes ecological function that was left in a degraded state after mining operations.
4 Returns Community Events
As a growing 4 returns community we organize regular online and offline get togethers, webinars, expert practitioner meetings and more. On this platform, we also collect events organised by others which we find relevant in the context of holistic and business-driven landscape restoration. Check out what’s in store over the coming 6 months. You are most welcome to join.
Online course
22 hours to complete
beginners level
100% online
flexible deadlines
all in English
Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration
Certificates available