Learning from practice: environmental and community mapping as participatory action research in planning

Saija, Laura; Leo, Daniela De; Forester, John; Pappalardo, Giusy; Rocha, Ives; Sletto, BjÃ ̧rn; Corburn, Jason; Mwau, Baraka; Magnaghi, Alberto

doi:10.1080/14649357.2016.1262982

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“…This is also producing many benefits in terms of economic regeneration, thanks to the EU and National programs that are in the process of being implemented in the area. In terms of "community participation", the Community Mapping process [15,70,71]-that many ecomuseums have in common [51,52]-is a means for allowing public participation in a democratic manner. In terms of "local organization operation", the existence of initiatives such as the Biodistrict and the project "new value chain" would encourage the collaboration between experts and citizens in enhancing the local economy.…”

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“…The mobilization was successful, so the plan was withdrawn but the local community decided not to stop after the protests: the associations kept organizing and asked some researchers from the University of Catania to start a partnership aimed at creating forms for local development inspired by an ethos of social-ecological justice, as an alternative to the model of development that the mega-incinerators represented. The partnership conducted a first community mapping experiment in order to focus not only on issues, but mostly on shared values, memories, identities and visions, in order to draft a first bottom-up strategic plan [15,70,71]. Then, various steps followed.…”

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Community-Based Processes for Revitalizing Heritage: Questioning Justice in the Experimental Practice of Ecomuseums

Pappalardo

2020

Sustainability

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Heritage is not only what societies inherit from the past: it is also an opportunity for practicing the principles of sustainability in the making of the future. A community-based approach is pivotal for generating long lasting processes aimed at revitalizing heritage. This assertion has been widely stated in several norms and conventions, such as the 2000 European Landscape Convention and the 2005 European Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society. Some practices aimed at revitalizing heritage with a community-based approach can be ascribed to the organizational form of the so-called ecomuseums, born in France in the 1970s and today spread worldwide. Ecomuseums soon became a tool for organizing community-based processes aimed at protecting and enhancing heritage in its various facets while promoting local development. However, not every existing ecomuseum is also able to grasp the opportunity of including disadvantaged persons and guaranteeing the right to heritage for all. This paper discusses the innovative elements and criticalities of ecomuseums, questioning how could they target heritage’s enhancement as well as justice simultaneously. This paper gains evidence from an ongoing action-research process and provides policy recommendations for EU southern regions that are now starting to experiment with the practice of ecomuseums, such as Sicily (IT).

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Community-Based Processes for Revitalizing Heritage: Questioning Justice in the Experimental Practice of Ecomuseums

Pappalardo

2020

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“…So in post-Katrina New Orleans, for example, a community-university partnership with ACORN (a leading national, activist, grassroots citizens organization) assured that good technical analy sis gained the ear of po liti cal officials (Reardon and Forester 2016). In ambitious equity-oriented community mapping initiatives as far away as Sicily, Laura Saija and Guisy Pappalardo found that partnerships with local officials allowed innovative river mapping and community development initiatives to take hold and not to remain on paper alone (Saija, De Leo, and Forester 2017). And so we see too what Lily Song powerfully calls, in the community development contexts of Cleveland and Los Angeles, "co ali tional work"-among, for example, organizers, planners, foundation staff, CDCs, city staff, and others (Song 2016)-that extend ideas of partnership, collaboration, and even participatory action research.…”

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10. The Future of Equity Planning Education in the United States

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2019

Advancing Equity Planning Now

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In this chapter, we address the origin and the pos si ble future of equity planning. Working in cities characterized by inequalities and power differences along lines of class, race, gender, and more, equity planners have strug gled for de cades to translate lessons about po liti cal structure and organ ization into specific, useful practices serving ends of social justice. In so doing, equity planners have integrated concerns with the "ends" or "outcomes" of social justice with the "pro cess" skills and interactive techniques of organ izing and co ali tion building. They have engaged sensitively and productively with "difference" and listened critically not only to learn, to honor community history, and to re spect community partners but also not least of all to get results. In addition, we will suggest that learning to use social media will matter. Studying urban communities ethnographically via area studies will matter. Examining and rejecting racial privilege will matter. Co ali tion building by mediating differing interests and values will matter. Organ izing and prob lem solving with others in participatory action research will matter. Equity planners will have to assess both the written texts of researchers as well as the lived texts of community members. They will have to learn about potential outcomes and practices, about both goals and methods, about ideals of social justice, as well as about grounded methods of paying re spect and building working relationships with community partners, too.

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“…In the last two decades, part of this community has been involved in participatory actions for the sustainable development of the area. In particular, thanks to the cooperation between local groups of citizens, organized in an association named Participatory Presidium of the Simeto River Agreement (PSRA) [46], local administration bodies and the University of Catania, in 2015 the municipalities of Paternò, Ragalna, S.M. di Licodia, Motta Sant'Anastasia, Belpasso, Biancavilla, Adrano, Centuripe, Troina, and Regalbuto, for a total of about 100,000 inhabitants, the PSRA and the University of Catania have signed the Simeto River Agreement (SRA), a river contract aiming at encouraging local development through participatory approaches ( Figure 2).…”

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Worry about Climate Change and Urban Flooding Risk Preparedness in Southern Italy: A Survey in the Simeto River Valley (Sicily, Italy)

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Intensive urbanization and related increase of impervious surfaces, causes negative impacts on the hydrological cycle, amplifying the risk of urban floods. These impacts can get even worse due to potential climate change impacts. The urban areas of the Simeto River Valley (SRV), the largest river valley in Sicily (Italy), have been repeatedly hit by intense rainfall events in the last decades that lead to urban flooding, causing several damages and, in some instances, threats to population. In this paper, we present the results of a 10-question survey on climate change and risk perception in 11 municipalities of the SRV carried out within the activities of the LIFE project SimetoRES, which allowed to collect 1143 feedbacks from the residents. The survey investigated: (a) the level of worry about climate change in relation to extreme storms, (b) elements of urban flooding risk preparedness: the direct experience of the residents during heavy rain events, their trust in a civil protection regional alert system, and their knowledge of the correct behavior in case of flood, and (c) the willingness of citizens to implement sustainable drainage actions for climate change adaptation in their own municipality and real estates. The results show that more than 52% of citizens has inadequate knowledge of the correct behavior during flooding events and only 30% of them feel responsible for mitigation of flooding risk. There is a modest willingness by the population to support the construction of sustainable urban drainage infrastructures. A statistical cross-analysis of the answers to the different questions, based on contingency matrices and conditional frequencies, has shown that a greater worry about climate change has no significant impact either on the behavior of people in dangerous situations occurring during flooding events or on the willingness to support financially sustainable solutions. These results suggest that to build a higher worry about climate change and related urban flooding risk is not sufficient to have better preparedness, and that more direct educative actions are necessary in the area.

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Learning from practice: environmental and community mapping as participatory action research in planning

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Community-Based Processes for Revitalizing Heritage: Questioning Justice in the Experimental Practice of Ecomuseums

Community-Based Processes for Revitalizing Heritage: Questioning Justice in the Experimental Practice of Ecomuseums

10. The Future of Equity Planning Education in the United States

Worry about Climate Change and Urban Flooding Risk Preparedness in Southern Italy: A Survey in the Simeto River Valley (Sicily, Italy)

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