Hss 2 Lecture

Peter Kuria (SHALIN Finland)

• GIS for forest communities and resources
• Environment as resource, or environment?
• using waste instead of cutting trees (generating biogas using gasification)
• management of local knowledge, so that it can be relevant today
• community
  • some people do not think of themselves as part of community
  • different things in accademic
• they did Participatory 3D modelling in community as blueprint for resource management
  • the community creates legend of the map and the transfer it to the model
  • models for different time (ask elders, then youngers)
  • useful for people who don't have any formal education, but have traditional knowledge
• http://cybertracker.org/
• there are lot of ethical issues related
• the problem with development is that we are trying to make things complex, so it would be only for experts

http://www.iapad.org/publications/ppgis/p3dm_arcbc.pdf

Participatory mapping

• study wealth by asking the neighbours