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Using Participatory Mapping to Foster Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Forest Fire-Prone Areas: The Case of Monchique in Portugal

open access: yesFire, 2022
Local knowledge and communities’ active role in disaster risk areas are recognized in the literature as key conditions to better understand risks, enhance adaptive capacities and foster local resilience.
Maria Partidário   +9 more
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Salto Ventoso. Farroupilha (Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil).

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, 2012
The article analyses the use of ethno-mapping practices to help participatory management of sustainable tourism in areas tha are inhabited by traditional populations near or within protected areas at Amazonia.
Leonardo Gama Campos   +1 more
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La cartographie participative, un outil au service de la gouvernance foncière

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2019
              Various methodologies are being put in place in participatory mapping programs by actors with the aim of improving the system of land governance.
Juscar Ndjounguep
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Archaeological Survey as Participatory Counter-Mapping

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract This chapter discusses the epistemic value of a community-based, participatory mapping approach to archaeological survey, based on research co-created with the Indigenous Emberá tribe in Darién Province, Panama. Rather than initiating survey with preconceived criteria for identifying archaeological sites, we mapped landscapes
Gill, L., Donner, N.
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Participation, for Whom? The Potential of Gamified Participatory Artefacts in Uncovering Power Relations within Urban Renewal Projects

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
When defining participation in urban renewal projects in a political sense, this concept implies the challenging of power relations in each of its dimensions while addressing the need for knowledge, action and consciousness.
Teodora Iulia Constantinescu   +2 more
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Participatory Mapping and PGIS

open access: yesInternational Journal of E-Planning Research, 2021
Applications of participatory mapping (PMapping) and PGIS to the mapping of local spatial knowledge are expanding; therefore, updated ethics and good practice improvements are needed. The intention here is to secern, or distinguish between, two pairs of concepts essential to PMapping – between ‘facts' and ‘values' in the knowledge being mapped and ...
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Towards Effective Participation: A Stakeholder-Centered Evaluation for Aggregating Spatially Explicit Data

open access: yesLand
As participatory mapping becomes more ingrained into participatory practices, it is vital to understand what makes a method effective. Through the employment of a participatory mapping experiment within an ongoing urban greening initiative, this research
Sebastian Leahy, Eduardo Dias
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Mapping Is Caring: Fostering Forest Preservation through Young Orang Rimba Initiatives

open access: yesEarth, 2023
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12, states that young people should be able to participate in issues that affect them. In this study, the indigenous Orang Rimba community examines the natural resources of their area through mapping ...
Anang Widhi Nirwansyah   +4 more
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Combining Knowledge Systems Helps Understand the Spatial Dynamics of Data-Limited Small-Scale Fisheries Systems in Brazil: A Methods Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Mangrove habitats provide nursery, shelter, and feeding sites for many economically relevant fish, and invertebrates, such as crabs. Given the highly artisanal character and the patchy spatial distribution of small-scale fishing in mangroves, there is ...
Rebecca Borges   +7 more
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Participatory Landscape Conservation: A Case Study of a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Michoacan, Mexico

open access: yesLand, 2023
Participatory landscape conservation is an innovative approach that weaves together theoretical models and practical applications. Intertropical regions, such as Mexico, face challenges to conciliate regional governability, social justice, and nature ...
Neyra Sosa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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