Our ethos comprises 9 integrated principles/values which guide our work.

These 9 principles are being adopted as inspiration and guidance for projects and organisations at the cutting edge of development and as a way to harness the landscape to meet the UN SDGs.

The landscape is the vast infrastructure upon which we depend, providing the context, resources and connection that are vital to our existence and prosperity. Landscape-scale thinking provides the big-picture which helps to cut across artificial boundaries and silos that make is increasing difficult to tackle the climate emergency, social inequality, water scarcity or institutional inflexibility.

We need to work beyond boundaries spatially, visually, ecologically and economically. The bigger picture demands greater geographic sensibility, context-sensitive knowledge and expertise to inform planning, development, transformation and assessment.