A practical process that supports better, more sustainable decisions about land, by all those who need to make them, including local and national government, businesses and communities.

• It is based on a set of principles and practices designed to align top-down and bottom-up priorities, mediate competing pressures and encourage multifunctionality. 
• It brings together key data and expertise, and innovative spatial mapping tools, to guide leaders through better land use decisions, optimising land use for multiple benefits.

A Multifunctional Land Use Framework could help navigate diverse and dispersed ownership and responsibilities over land - making it easier for everyone involved at the outset to think strategically and locally; for the long term and for immediate practical needs.