Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

Canevari-Luzardo, Laura; Bastide, Joan; Choutet, Isabelle; Liverman, Diana

doi:10.1080/17565529.2015.1067593

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“…The innovative contribution of our investigation in comparison with previous works, such as Canevari-Luzardo et al [12] and Musungu et al [13] is the size of the survey, 502 households, and the level of details obtained on each flood risk parameters, in particular, detailed information on flood hazard. Moreover, we demonstrated how local knowledge can complement the use of remote sensing analysis, aspect that wasn't integrated in Canevari-Luzardo et al [12] and Musungu et al [13].…”

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“…Moreover, we demonstrated how local knowledge can complement the use of remote sensing analysis, aspect that wasn't integrated in Canevari-Luzardo et al [12] and Musungu et al [13].…”

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“…The local population can give inaccurate information, especially in terms of hazard mapping and spatial perception (Haynes et al [14]). However in our study, we used neighbourhood scale paper maps, handled GPS and mobile SIG, therefore increasing the accuracy of mapping as already noticed by Canevari-Luzardo et al [12]. In order to acquire high quality data, interviewers were trained, we organized a test study to ensure wording was comprehensible and we used the local language to avoid misunderstanding.…”

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Participatory approach for flood risk assessment: the case of Yeumbeul Nord (YN), Dakar, Senegal

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Dao

et al. 2016

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Flooding has emerged lately as a major threat for poor people in the suburban area of Dakar (Senegal), a densely populated area. In this region, flood events are mainly controlled by rainfall intensity and groundwater level fluctuations.To assess flood risk at a neighbourhood level, accurate data on flood extent, exposure and vulnerability is required. The objective of the present study is to obtain these data combining remote sensing data and local knowledge. Field work data were collected through interviews with inhabitants. About 500 respondents were surveyed with the support of a local association and very detailed mapping was carried out to clearly identify elements at risk. Information collected at the household level concerns: 1) socio-economic data, 2) information on the property, 3) flooded houses and 4) strategies of risk reduction.This research demonstrates that local knowledge is an important tool to obtain accurate data useful for understanding flood hazard and vulnerability patterns. It provides quantitative data at the household level that can be used to complement conventional GIS and remote sensing data.

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“…Moreover, we demonstrated how local knowledge can complement the use of remote sensing analysis, aspect that wasn't integrated in Canevari-Luzardo et al [12] and Musungu et al [13].…”

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Participatory approach for flood risk assessment: the case of Yeumbeul Nord (YN), Dakar, Senegal

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“…For this we needed to engage relevant stake-holders, like the community leaders or the women in charge of managing the rural laundries or "lavaderos" who have lasted from the colonial period and still represent a traditional way to use natural resources for the community. If we had only relied on tools like geographic information systems technology (GIS), we might be limiting the ratio of engagement to just a few people besides our research team and some specialists (Canevari-Luzardo et al 2017). We needed to pursue a novel way to target and co-produce local knowledge, so we undertook a study about walking trails that incorporated interviews with the community leaders and developed a generative toolkit (Sanders and Stappers 2012) that supported map making through workshop sessions with a variety of participants and a followed them up with an observational guidebook to be distributed among other neighbours that could not attend the workshops.…”

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“…From our scientific perspective we needed to use these technologies to store, retrieve, map and analyse geographic data but we also needed to integrate, and layer local knowledge and data generated for the community to use. So, we decided to assume an intermediary or facilitator role for technology and assumed a "partial participatory GIS approach" a process where all the computerized aspects of GIS are undertaken by a technical expert (Canevari-Luzardo et al 2017); in our case, the main designer and geographer of the research team. Our process consisted of 4 stages: Stage 1.…”

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Map Making: Mobilizing Local Knowledge and Fostering Collaboration

Morales¹,

Gonzalez²

2018

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Participatory mapping – the production of maps in a collective way – is a common activity used for planning and decision making in urban studies. It started as a way to empower men and women, usually from rural vulnerable communities threatened by climate change, degradation of their landfills or any other conflict related to access to their land. It has been considered a fundamental instrument to help marginal groups represent and communicate their needs within the territory and augment their capacity to protect their rights. (FIDA, 2011). Why is it that in some cases participatory mapping works and in others fails? Why do these initiatives not trigger local action? Or even end up being counterproductive, when authorities use the map made by locals, to validate their points, causing conflict instead of negotiation? As a research team of designers and social scientists involved in the creation of participatory mapping workshops, our goal was to analyze the process and resources and different outcomes of some participatory cartographic projects, including one developed by us for three small communities of the original settlements of the West Mountain Region of Mexico City. Our findings outline three main principles to consider when pursuing a community mapping project whether using low‐end or state of the art technology, in order to involve a community, validate their knowledge acquired from the mapping practice, and foster collaboration and organized action.

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Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement

Tompkins

Vincent

Nicholls

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WIREs Climate Change

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Article 7, paragraph 14 of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change commits Parties to create a five yearly assessment of observed adaptation to track progress and enable appropriate future commitments through the Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans. No large‐scale study exists that shows the types of adaptation, the spatial distribution of types of adaptation, and the numbers of people engaging in that adaptation. To address this gap, and to feed into debates about the modalities for the global stocktake, in this paper we propose a new “stocktaking” approach to document the spectrum and prevalence of observed adaptation over large scales. The four‐step stocktaking approach focuses on: (a) obtaining consensus on the objectives of adaptation; (b) agreeing the sources of evidence; (c) agreeing the search method; and (d) categorizing the adaptations. By focusing on documenting rather than evaluating adaptation, the simple approach avoids some of the adaptation heuristic traps. With guidance to countries on how to operationalize, this approach could improve the transparency of adaptation data collection and analysis, ensure comparability of findings across space and time, and inform the Adaptation Communications (Article 7.10)—a prerequisite to strengthening future ambition commitments within the Paris Agreement. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > International Policy Framework Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation

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Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

Cited by 39 publications

References 33 publications

Participatory approach for flood risk assessment: the case of Yeumbeul Nord (YN), Dakar, Senegal

Participatory approach for flood risk assessment: the case of Yeumbeul Nord (YN), Dakar, Senegal

Map Making: Mobilizing Local Knowledge and Fostering Collaboration

Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement

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