Augmenting physical 3D models with projected information to support environmental knowledge exchange

Fisher, Rohan; Heckbert, Scott; Villalobos, José María León; Sutton, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102095

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“…This method can be a powerful tool for Indigenous Peoples to use to accurately delimit the areas currently used which can help these groups defend and claim their ancestral lands, see e.g., 75 . A variety of methodologies have been used, ranging from highly participatory approaches involving village sketch maps to more technical efforts with geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing 76 . Alongside the communal mapping of territories undertaken in each village, we also engaged with individual hunters for them to record their movements when hunting using a wrist-held GPS.…”

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Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

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A significant number of Baka Pygmies in Cameroon have been sedentarised in roadside villages, in contrast to their nomadic hunter-gatherer existence of the past. Although this change in lifestyle has had important consequences on health, most Baka villages still supplement their diets from forest products, especially wild meat. We used a combination of participatory methods and monitoring of individual hunters to map hunting territories in 10 Baka villages in southeastern Cameroon. From these, we determined whether wild meat extraction levels per village were related to the size of hunting territories, measured habitat use by hunters and finally defined the overlap between hunting territories and extractive industries in the region. Mapped village hunting areas averaged 205.2 ± 108.7 km2 (range 76.8–352.0 km2); all villages used a total of 2052 km2. From 295 tracks of 51 hunters, we showed that hunters travelled an average of 16.5 ± 13.5 km (range 0.9–89.8 km) from each village. Home ranges, derived from kernel utilization distributions, were correlated with village offtake levels, but hunter offtake and distance travelled were not significantly related, suggesting that enough prey was available even close to the villages. Hunters in all village areas exhibited a clear bias towards certain habitats, as indicated by positive Ivlev’s index of selectivity values. We also showed that all village hunting territories and hunter home ranges fall within mining and logging concessions. Our results are important for local understanding of forest land uses and to reconcile these with the other land uses in the region to better inform decisions concerning land use policy and planning.

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Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

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Martin³

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“…Influence mapping, for example, supports Indigenous participants to make drawings of social networks and thereby reveal how groups mobilise power in multi-level governance systems, and use this knowledge to jointly design strategies that advance Indigenous goals (Schiffer and Hauck 2010;Hauck et al 2015). Spatial mapping approaches to support Indigenous goals include: land-use and occupancy mapping (Tobias 2000); cross-cultural mapping marine environments (Davies et al 2020); constructing 3-dimensional (3D) maps of landscapes (Rambaldi et al 2007;Banaynal and Dwamena 2011); and using augmented 3D-printed landscapes with projected spatial data (Fisher et al 2019). Nevertheless, Indigenous people argue that knowledge co-production activities need to recognise their roles as self-determining nations with rights and the responsibility to lead application of their knowledge systems in environmental decision-making (Latulippe and Klenk 2020).…”

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Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River

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Co-production across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems has become a cornerstone of research to enhance knowledge, practice, ethics, and foster sustainability transformations. However, the profound differences in world views and the complex and contested histories of nation-state colonisation on Indigenous territories, highlight both opportunities and risks for Indigenous people when engaging with knowledge co-production. This paper investigates the conditions under which knowledge co-production can lead to improved Indigenous adaptive environmental planning and management among remote land-attached Indigenous peoples through a case study with ten Traditional Owner groups in the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) Catchment in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. The research team built a 3D map of the river and used it, together with an interactive table-top projector, to bring together both scientific and Indigenous spatial knowledge. Participatory influence mapping, aligned with Traditional Owner priorities to achieve cultural governance and management planning goals set out in the Fitzroy River Declaration, investigated power relations. An analytical framework, examining underlying mechanisms of social learning, knowledge promotion and enhancing influence, based on different theories of change, was applied to unpack the immediate outcomes from these activities. The analysis identified that knowledge co-production activities improved the accessibility of the knowledge, the experiences of the knowledge users, strengthened collective identity and partnerships, and strengthened Indigenous-led institutions. The focus on cultural governance and management planning goals in the Fitzroy River Declaration enabled the activities to directly affect key drivers of Indigenous adaptive environmental planning and management—the Indigenous-led institutions. The nation-state arrangements also gave some support to local learning and decision-making through a key Indigenous institution, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. Knowledge co-production with remote land-attached Indigenous peoples can improve adaptive environmental planning and management where it fosters learning together, is grounded in the Indigenous-led institutions and addresses their priorities.

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Contributions to Socio-environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology

Larraín

Nesbitt

2023

The Latin American Studies Book Series

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Augmenting physical 3D models with projected information to support environmental knowledge exchange

Cited by 5 publications

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Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River

Contributions to Socio-environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology

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