Cybercartography as a transdisciplinary approach to solve complex environmental problems: A case study of the Kumeyaay Peoples of Baja California and the conservation of oak trees

Andrade-Sánchez, Jorge; Eaton-González, Ricardo

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“…This information should be leveraged to determine those sources that pose risk to the community and encourage water well users to take steps to reduce the risks associated with the use and consumption of water from wells in poor condition; practices that are not currently followed since water is consumed directly from the water well. This proved that participatory mapping is a crucial tool for the decisionmaking process regarding natural resources, as it provides easy-to-use data to make an autonomous decision with common health implications [9,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. We suggest continuing monitoring and presenting continuous results to the community and providing solutions for water treatment for an autonomous decision-making process led by the local community.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Digital atlases allow stakeholders, government, and visitors to locate the community, as well as its natural, cultural, and commercial resources. Several tools were used to acquire data, such as traditional mapping techniques and digital mapping apps like KoboCollect, similar to other digital mapping efforts [34][35][36][37]. Moreover, the acquired data are presented through various forms, such as printed and digital maps.…”

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“…There are several new approaches to participatory mapping, including digital mapping technologies [35][36][37]. Although these approaches are considered participatory mapping, they are based on a new way to collect and represent spatial data in different formats.…”

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“…Participatory processes were developed in Kumeyaay communities to map plant species distribution and assess their conservation status [9,25,42,43]; for the diagnosis and training of the community [42]; for the mapping of forest pests, and the construction of a cybercartographic atlas for natural resource management decision-making [35]. Neverthe-less, every effort was made to incorporate several dimensions into one analysis, such as cultural, biodiversity, and local economy.…”

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Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

Eaton-González

Andrade-Sánchez

Montaño-Soto

et al. 2021

IJGI

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Participatory mapping is a tool for community work linked to natural resource management. It is an auxiliary for diagnosis and data acquisition from communities and their natural resources. In Baja California, there are several indigenous communities, some close to urban areas but still unknown to most people in cities as well as visitors. These communities are fighting to restore and maintain their language, tradition, territory, biological, and cultural diversity. This work was carried out by linking members of the indigenous community of San Jose de la Zorra with bachelor’s and graduate degree students, to obtain information on the biological, cultural, and economic activities of the community through participatory mapping. The learning experience was significant for all participants; although it was not the intention in this study, students had the unique opportunity to exchange information and learn culture and biodiversity from indigenous people. The indigenous community was involved in field data acquisition and the use of some information and communication technology resources developed for this approach, and used it for natural resource management and decision making. The main results of this experience were wide format printed maps that were placed on several sites inside and outside the community, digital mapping that gave information about natural, cultural, and economic resources of the community for local and foreign visitors, and technology transference to solve problems identified by the community.

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“…A multitude of case studies and successful implementations of Indigenous-led participatory mapping approaches are described in the 2022 "International Journal for Geo-Information (IJGI) Special Issue on Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in the Digital Age" [71]. One study describes a stepwise process of a participatory workshop development and implementation by Andrade-Sanchez and Eaton-Gonza'lez [72] in working with the Kumeyaay Peoples of Baja California. Workshops of this type are intended to build a team that includes a technical group and the community in a dynamic exchange of knowledge Cybercartography incorporates linguistics, semantics, and geospatial technologies as mediating platforms (as described in the previous section).…”

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Meeting the Challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Holistic Systems Thinking and Applied Geospatial Ethics

Caudill,

Pulsifer,

Thumbadoo

et al. 2024

IJGI

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The halfway point for the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was marked in 2023, as set forth in the 2030 Agenda. Geospatial technologies have proven indispensable in assessing and tracking fundamental components of each of the 17 SDGs, including climatological and ecological trends, and changes and humanitarian crises and socio-economic impacts. However, gaps remain in the capacity for geospatial and related digital technologies, like AI, to provide a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the complex and multi-factorial challenges delineated in the SDGs. Lack of progress toward these goals, and the immense implementation challenges that remain, call for inclusive and holistic approaches, coupled with transformative uses of digital technologies. This paper reviews transdisciplinary, holistic, and participatory approaches to address gaps in ethics and diversity in geospatial and related technologies and to meet the pressing need for bottom-up, community-driven initiatives. Small-scale, community-based initiatives are known to have a systemic and aggregate effect toward macro-economic and global environmental goals. Cybernetic systems thinking approaches are the conceptual framework investigated in this study, as these approaches suggest that a decentralized, polycentric system—for example, each community acting as one node in a larger, global system—has the resilience and capacity to create and sustain positive change, even if it is counter to top-down decisions and mechanisms. Thus, this paper will discuss how holistic systems thinking—societal, political, environmental, and economic choices considered in an interrelated context—may be central to building true resilience to climate change and creating sustainable development pathways. Traditional and Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems around the world hold holistic awareness of human-ecological interactions—practicable, reciprocal relationships developed over time as a cultural approach. This cultural holistic approach is also known as Systemic Literacy, which considers how systems function beyond “mechanical” aspects and include political, philosophical, psychological, emotional, relational, anthropological, and ecological dimensions. When Indigenous-led, these dimensions can be unified into participatory, community-centered conservation practices that support long-term human and environmental well-being. There is a growing recognition of the criticality of Indigenous leadership in sustainability practices, as well as that partnerships with Indigenous peoples and weaving knowledge systems, as a missing link to approaching global ecological crises. This review investigates the inequality in technological systems—the “digital divide” that further inhibits participation by communities and groups that retain knowledge of “place” and may offer the most transformative solutions. Following the review and synthesis, this study presents cybernetics as a bridge of understanding to Indigenous systems thinking. As non-Indigenous scholars, we hope that this study serves to foster informed, productive, and respectful dialogues so that the strength of diverse knowledges might offer whole-systems approaches to decision making that tackle wicked problems. Lastly, we discuss use cases of community-based processes and co-developed geospatial technologies, along with ethical considerations, as avenues toward enhancing equity and making advances in democratizing and decolonizing technology.

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Cybercartography as a transdisciplinary approach to solve complex environmental problems: A case study of the Kumeyaay Peoples of Baja California and the conservation of oak trees

Cited by 2 publications

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Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

Meeting the Challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Holistic Systems Thinking and Applied Geospatial Ethics

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