Authors: Verburg, Peter; Malek, Ziga;Venier-Cambron, Camille;

Conservation planning is often based on the current land use situation. However, land use is dynamic, either putting future constraints on conservation through increasing pressures, or bringing new opportunities, e.g., due to agricultural land abandonment. Such pressures and opportunities also arise through efforts to achieve other sustainability targets at the same time, which might be conflicting or synergistic. Integrated land use planning at different spatial scales is required to align the different demands on space and find more optimal solutions and/or make the tradeoffs explicit. However, the methods and tools available to support such integrated spatial planning processes are still limited. In this presentation I will provide a number of approaches that go beyond conservation planning alone, accounting for land use change dynamics and multiple claims on land resources. The approaches can be oriented more top-down or more bottom-up, leading to different solutions for the same region. Scenario simulation of the implications of such solutions helps discussing future land use and the barriers towards implementation.