A participatory approach in GIS data collection for flood risk management, Muzarabani district, Zimbabwe

Chingombe, Wisemen; Pedzisai, Ezra; Manatsa, Desmond; Mukwada, Geoffrey; Taru, Phillip

doi:10.1007/s12517-014-1265-6

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“…Not only did the methods serve to elicit spatial data, but the maps served as a method to facilitate conservation knowledge sharing throughout the interviews and workshops. Participatory mapping has been commonly used to create 'sketch maps' for such purposes [145][146][147]. Our use of maps increased participant involvement during the interviews and workshops by providing an anchor for the dialogue to revolve around, furthering conversations, and stimulating memories through the process, as was found by Boschmann and Cubbon [145].…”

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confidence: 92%

Accessing Local Tacit Knowledge as a Means of Knowledge Co-Production for Effective Wildlife Corridor Planning in the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada

Needham

Beazley

Papuga

2020

Land

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Inclusive knowledge systems that engage local perspectives and social and natural sciences are difficult to generate and infuse into decision-making processes but are critical for conservation planning. This paper explores local tacit knowledge application to identify wildlife locations, movement patterns and heightened opportunities and barriers for connectivity conservation planning in a critical linkage area known as the Chignecto Isthmus in the eastern Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Thirty-four local hunters, loggers, farmers and others with strong tacit knowledge of wildlife and the land participated in individual interviews and group workshops, both of which engaged participatory mapping. Individuals’ data were digitised, analysed and compiled into thematic series of maps, which were refined through participatory, consensus-based workshops. Locations of key populations and movement patterns for several species were delineated, predominantly for terrestrial mammals and migratory birds. When comparing local tacit-knowledge-based maps with those derived from formal-natural-science models, key differences and strong overlap were apparent. Local participants provided rich explanatory and complementary data. Their engagement in the process fostered knowledge transfer within the group and increased confidence in their experiential knowledge and its value for decision making. Benefits derived from our study for conservation planning in the region include enhanced spatial data on key locations of wildlife populations and movement pathways and local insights into wildlife changes over time. Identified contributing factors primarily relate to habitat degradation and fragmentation from human activities (i.e., land use and cover changes caused by roads and forestry practices), thereby supporting the need for conservation measures. The generated knowledge is important for consideration in local planning initiatives; it addresses gaps in existing formal-science data and validates or ground truths the outputs of existing computer-based models of wildlife habitat and movement pathways within the context of the complex social-ecological systems of the place and local people. Critically, awareness of the need for conservation and the value of the participants’ shared knowledge has been enhanced, with potential influence in fostering local engagement in wildlife conservation and other planning initiatives. Consistent with other studies, engagement of local people and their tacit knowledge was found to (i) provide important insights, knowledge translation, and dissemination to complement formal, natural science, (ii) help build a more inclusive knowledge system grounded in the people and place, and (iii) lend support to conservation action for connectivity planning and human-wildlife co-existence. More broadly, our methods demonstrate an effective approach for representing differences and consensus among participants’ spatial indications of wildlife and habitat as a means of co-producing knowledge in participatory mapping for conservation planning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Accessing Local Tacit Knowledge as a Means of Knowledge Co-Production for Effective Wildlife Corridor Planning in the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada

Needham

Beazley

Papuga

2020

Land

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“…Cornwall and Jewkes (1995) warn that judicious application of "participatory" is of the utmost importance to avoid less-than-critical discourse in an already contentious and confusing debate. Seminal papers discussing the nature and definition of participatory research have offered a continuum on which a research project may be located through careful reflection of its design and execution (Cornwall & Jewkes, 1995;Chambers, 2006;Dunn, 2007). Chambers' (2006) continuum defines participatory collaboration by…”

Section: Participatory Gis and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating sketch mapping and hot spot analysis to enhance capacity for community‐level flood and disaster risk management

Brandt

Graham

Hawthorne

et al. 2019

Geographical Journal

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This community-based research aims to enhance local-level flood management by utilizing participatory GIS (PGIS) methods to capture the spatial dimensions of community member flooding concerns in Hopkins Village, Belize. We offer a mixed methodology, applying participatory sketch mapping as a way to collect local knowledge about community perceptions of flooding in this data-scarce context. We combine this local knowledge with quantitative geostatistical hot spot analysis of basic village infrastructure characteristics to reveal insights about community perceptions of and response to flood risk. The significance of this research lies in the application of PGIS methods to create two different primary data sets, which when analyzed together offer a more complete story about community understanding and needs for flood management. One set of data (more qualitative in nature) originated from sketch maps with community members and answers descriptive questions about how people spatially conceptualize hydro-meteorological hazards within their community. The other (more quantitative in nature) is the village's first publicly-accessible infrastructure data set (including information on building structures, roads, and drainage infrastructure) digitized by our research team from high-resolution drone imagery. Attributes for the infrastructure data set were developed in collaboration with community members to reflect their desires for data and information suited to conduct flood vulnerability assessment. Application of thematic coding and hot spot analysis to the data reveals concerns about hazards within their community and

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“…Various tools are used to involve citizens, which can be classified into two main categories, direct and online. The first category implies observation or mapping activities through active survey (Sy et al, ), participatory mapping (P‐mapping) or participatory Geographic Information System (P‐GIS) (Chingombe, Pedzisai, Manatsa, Mukwada, & Taru, ; De Andrade & Szlafsztein, ; Kienberger, ). The second category involves citizen's participation via the use of Web platforms (Dorn, Vetter, & Höfle, ; See et al, ) or social networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Flood hazard assessment and the role of citizen science

Frischknecht

Dao

et al. 2019

J Flood Risk Management

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Flood hazard assessment is at the core of flood risk management. In order to develop an efficient flood hazard assessment, it is of primary importance to have a well‐defined flood scenario encompassing all processes that could occur during an event. Understanding and assessing these processes requires meteorological, topographical and land‐use data as well as historical observations. Nowadays, flood delineation is based upon hydrological and hydraulic modelling, ground data collection, and remote sensing. Despite the advantages of these tools, they also present some specific limitations, either intrinsic to the approaches or linked with constraints of the local context. With the rapid advancement of web 2.0 technologies (e.g., Flickr and Wikimapia) and the increase of the use of participatory research, citizen science has the potential to provide valuable and complementary information at all levels of flood risk management and in particular for flood hazard assessment. After reviewing the capabilities and limitations of the current tools used in flood hazard assessment, this paper demonstrates the role that citizen science can play in providing key information on factors leading to flooding and on flood hazard parameters.

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A participatory approach in GIS data collection for flood risk management, Muzarabani district, Zimbabwe

Cited by 38 publications

References 15 publications

Accessing Local Tacit Knowledge as a Means of Knowledge Co-Production for Effective Wildlife Corridor Planning in the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada

Accessing Local Tacit Knowledge as a Means of Knowledge Co-Production for Effective Wildlife Corridor Planning in the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada

Integrating sketch mapping and hot spot analysis to enhance capacity for community‐level flood and disaster risk management

Flood hazard assessment and the role of citizen science

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