The Landscape Monitoring Framework of the socio-economic dimension (LMS) is a tool that provides practical guidance to assess the socio-economic status of a landscape to monitor progress and facilitates action for development. The LMS targets the stakeholders of the landscape initiative, and in particular the initiators of the initiative, as the main user group. It was developed to meet the growing needs for landscape assessments to look deeper into socio-economic matters in a structural manner and give the socio-economic dimension the same attention as environmental and economic dimensions.

This document provides an executive Summary of the project and findings.