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Much of the world’s land has already been altered by human activities, meeting needs for food, energy, and infrastructure, but also putting biodiversity, climate, and human well-being at risk. To balance this and the growing competition for space, we need effective spatial management through integrated spatial planning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\tSpatial planning is a participatory process that guides and evaluates the distribution of human activities across space and time to balance economic, ecological, and social goals. Integrated spatial planning plays a central role in achieving Target 1 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework<\/a> and supports many other targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework as documented in a recent report from IUCN<\/a>. Within spatial planning, systematic conservation planning and its key step, spatial prioritization, provide a science-based, structured and transparent way to identify the most cost-effective locations for different management actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite these benefits, getting started with spatial prioritization can be challenging.\u00a0Planners need theoretical and technical skills to use specialized software and effective ways to communicate throughout the planning process to foster understanding and participation. To break down these barriers, a variety of tools have been developed that make spatial prioritization easier to use and more inclusive, thereby engaging a broader community of users.\u00a0\u00a0\n\tExplore our non-exhaustive list of spatial prioritization tools:<\/h2>\n\t