EUR - Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration
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Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration at Coursera Overview
Duration | 26 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 26 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration at Coursera Course details
- The 8-week course is designed in 3 phases that move the participants from ideation towards the successful implementation of a new sustainable business model for landscape restoration with 4 returns: return of natural capital, return of social capital, return of inspiration and return of financial capital. This course was created by the ENABLE consortium: Commonland, United Nations University Land Restoration Training Programme, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Nova School of Business & Economics, Rotterdam School of Management, and Erasmus University.
- Building on our ENABLE?s first MOOC "A Business Approach to Sustainable Landscape Restoration" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/landscape-restoration-sustainable-development/home/welcome), this second MOOC focuses on the potential for a positive role of business model innovation for landscape restoration, highlighting the following elements:
- - Vision Formulation
- - Systems Analysis
- - Stakeholder Analysis
- - Opportunity Analysis
- - Business Model Design
- - Solution Validation
- - Assessment & Monitoring
- - Reflection & Iteration
- This new course furthermore takes a partnership approach to take on the challenge of large-scale landscape restoration, reflecting the interconnectedness of ecology, society and economy in landscape management.
- Interdisciplinary teams are needed to find and implement solutions to the wicked problem of landscape degradation, which is why this MOOC is designed to work preferably with a team. If it suits your circumstances best, you can certainly also work individually.
- We have included three real-life cases of existing landscape restoration projects. For each step of the innovation process, we zoom in on those landscapes to show you how the theory looks in practice.
- A case about the Hekluskógar woodlands restoration project, an ambitious large-scale restoration project in Iceland to restore the provision of valuable ecosystem services and increase resilience to natural disasters like tephra deposition from volcanic eruptions; a case about diversification of land use and cropping systems in Spain to prevent land degradation and help restoring already degraded land; and a case about the disastrous effects of forest fires in Portugal.
- Additionally, MOOC participants are provided with other examples around the globe and numerous resources, such as reports, videos and platforms revolving around the business rationale for sustainable land management and business model innovation for landscape restoration.
Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration at Coursera Curriculum
Vision Formulation
INTRODUCTION - Zooming in
Getting started
Land degradation as a grand societal challenge
Land restoration partnerships
Sustainable business model innovation for landscape restoration
Discovering your means
Formulating a shared vision
Introduction to the Hekluskógar restoration project in Iceland
Introduction to crop diversification and low input farming in southeastern Spain
Introduction to forest fires and project CAuSA in Portgual
Landscape restoration partnerships - Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Vision formulation ? Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Unlock a joke
Little guide to group forming
Instruction for assignment submission
Workbook: Introduction and vision formulation
UNCCD Report - Global land outlook
UNCCD Report - Land degradation neutrality
Van Tulder (RSM) - A framework for effective corporate involvement
Helpful links
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Short explanation of weekly exercises
Systems Analysis
IN THEORY -Understanding social-ecological systems and tensions
IN THEORY - What is a system analysis?
IN THEORY - Social-ecological system analysis: Identifying factors and understanding relationships
IN THEORY - Central narrative and interventions
IN PRACTICE - Systems analysis in Iceland
IN PRACTICE - Systems analysis in Spain
Systems analysis
UNCCD Report - Sustainable land management for climate and people
UNCCD Report - Sustainable land management contribution to successful land-based climate change adapation and mitigation
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Unlock a recipe: Traditional Icelandic flatbread
Stakeholder Analysis
IN THEORY - What is a stakeholder analysis?
IN PRACTICE - Stakeholder analysis in Iceland
IN PRACTICE- Stakeholder analysis in Portugal
Stakeholder analysis - Interview about the Scale project
Joke (unlock a joke)
Workbook: 'Stakeholder Analysis'
EcoAgriculture Partners and IDH Report - Public private civic partnerships for sustainable landscapes
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Co-Creation and Opportunity Analysis
IN THEORY - Building a co-innovation network
IN THEORY - Opportunity analysis
IN PRACTICE - Co-creation in Iceland
IN PRACTICE - Co-creation in Spain
Opportunity analysis ? Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Opportunity analysis - Interview with Thekla Teunis and Liz Metcalfe from Grounded
Unlock a joke
Workbook: 'Co-creation and opportunity analysis'
GPFLR Report - Restoring forests and landscapes
Ipbes Report - Thematic assessment of land degradation and restoration
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Business Model Design
IN THEORY - Sustainable business models
IN THEORY - Triple layered business model canvas
IN PRACTICE - Business model design in Iceland
IN PRACTICE - Business model design in Spain
IN PRACTICE - Business model design in Portugal
Business model design - Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Business model design - Interview with Thekla Teunis and Liz Metcalfe from Grounded
Unlock a recipe: Spanish recipe
Workbook: 'Business model design'
WBCSD Report - The business case for investing in soil health
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Solution Validation
IN THEORY - Validating the business model design
IN THEORY - Systems and stakeholders
IN THEORY - Prototyping and testing
IN PRACTICE - Solution validation in Portugal
IN PRACTICE - Solution validation in Spain
Solution validation - Interview about the Scale project
Solution validation - Interview with Thekla Teunis and Liz Metcalfe from Grounded
Solution validation with stakeholders - Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Testing - Interviews with landscape restoration partners
Unlock a joke
Workbook: 'Solution validation'
The qualitative interview
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Assessment and Monitoring
IN THEORY - 4 returns assessment
FINANCE Q&A - Intro
FINANCE Q&A - Mark Gough
FINANCE Q&A - Dr. Rudolf de Groot
FINANCE Q&A - Prof. Dirk Schoenmaker
FINANCEQ&A - Willem Ferwerda
FINANCE Q&A - Paul Chatterton
IN PRACTICE - Assessment and monitoring in Portugal
IN PRACTICE - Assessment and monitoring in Iceland
Introduction to the Natural Capital Coalition NCC
Unlock a joke
Workbook: 'Reflection and iteration'
Ferwerda (Commonland) - 4 returns, 3 zones, 20 years
Schoenmaker (RSM) - From Risk to Opportunity a Framework for Sustainable Finance
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Reflection and Iteration
From me to we
Zooming out
The end of the beginning
Reflections of landscape restoration partners
Reflections - Interview with Thekla Teunis and Liz Metcalfe from Grounded
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Workbook: 'Reflection and iteration'
Let's Stay Connected!
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