This paper conducts an empirical case study in the low-lying coastal areas of northwest Germany. During a collaborative landscape planning process, four different ecosystem-based land management scenarios were co-designed by regional experts and researchers. The participatory and iterative process included:

- the development of scenario narratives to define planning goals

- the use of land use elements and their relations to ecosystem services as planning entities in terms of indicators

- the art-based illustrations of the different scenarios

- and an evaluation and monitoring of the outcomes.