About the Partnership

Across the UK, our lands and seas are under unprecedented pressure to meet multiple demands. A diverse range of organisations have responded to these challenges by creating an ever-growing number of ambitious landscape-scale projects. But these projects are often unconnected with no common methodology or shared learning, and lack a systems approach.

The Resilient Landscapes and Seas (RLAS) partnership provides this connectivity and over-arching support to help deliver benefits for nature, people and climate. The partnership is coordinated by the Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) in association with the British Ecological Society (BES) and funded through a private charitable trust.

The Partners

Coordinated by:

Vision
To enable the creation of large-scale land, freshwater, coastal and marine systems which deliver a more sustainable and resilient future for nature, people and climate.

Purpose
To build a more cohesive community around landscape-scale transformation, providing the connectivity between projects, enabling sharing of knowledge and facilitating mutual support. The partnership focuses on projects that are at least 500ha in scale and are designed to deliver multiple outcomes.

Objectives

· Improved sharing of best practice, especially in relation to the understanding of trade-offs and synergies between multiple outcomes;

Our next community event:

RLAS Symposium 2026

Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2026: *Collaborating at scale for nature and people.* Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 10-11 February 2026

· More effective monitoring and evaluation, with standardisation where desired;

· More extensive and accessible evidence of outcomes;

· Better support for the development of new projects.

Activities

· Events: to build a cohesive community and address key issues and needs

· Signposting to standardised methodologies for securing outcomes for nature, people and climate, and supporting the development of new monitoring tools and technologies

· Online search engine to increase the evidence base by capturing the location of ongoing projects, sharing best practice and hosting evidence of outcomes

· New projects: to deliver the next generation of landscape projects tackling new and emerging issues and encourage the formation of new consortia.

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