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Participatory 3D Modelling of Manus Island, PNG (video)

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Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) activity supported by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and partners in 2011 in PNG to help residents of Manus Island map out the terrestrial, coastal and marine resources and to plan for adapting to potential impacts due to climate change.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on March 16, 2012

The Voice of the Ogiek (video)

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In 2006 a little known ethnic group – called the Ogiek - created a three-dimensional map of their ancestral land in Kenya. In the past members of this indigenous community were regarded as second class citizen. Today, their story has gained international recognition. The Kenyan government is increasingly listening to their voice and including them in a dialogue over the future of their community and of the Mau Forest.This is the story of how the Ogiek found their voice …For more information on more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on November 18, 2011

Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge (paperback edition)

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Berghahn Books has announced the recent publication of a paperback edition of Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge, edited by Serena Heckler. In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on February 08, 2012

NASA | Temperature Data: 1880-2011

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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience higher temperatures than more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on January 27, 2012

Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity

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Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, the recently published book "Traditional Forest Knowledge" examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide.It considers the interplay between traditional beliefs and practices and formal forest science and interrogates the often uneasy relationship between these different knowledge systems.The contents also highlight efforts to more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on December 09, 2011

Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature: Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts

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Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co-authors, even many “progressive” methods fail to produce truly equal partnerships. This book offers a comprehensive and global overview of the theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of co-management. The authors critically evaluate the range of management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on May 10, 2011

Localisation, Participation and Communication: an Introduction to Good PGIS Practice

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This 25-min educational video documentary introduces the practice of participatory spatial information management and communication (PGIS) in the development context. It has been designed to introduce development practitioners (technology intermediaries) to the practice of demand-driven PGIS.In this video, PGIS practice is presented as a continuum starting from community mobilisation to project planning and design, choice of mapping methods and technologies, visualisation of different more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on October 29, 2010

Our forest, our dignity. Forest-dependent indigenous peoples voice their rights for existence and call for recognition of their cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge

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Babongo and Mitsogho peoples depicted their spatial knowledge on a locally made 3D model encompassing the northern fringes of the Waka National Park in the commune of Ikobey in Ngounié province in south-central Gabon. The mapped area includes a total of 13 villages populated by Babongo (people derogatorily termed “pygmies”) and their close relatives, the Mitsogho. After a preparation lasting several months, the participatory mapping exercise unfolded over a period of 10 days and resulted in a more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on October 22, 2010

Close to our Ancestors: Gabon forest peoples map their land (15 min video)

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This video, made in 2010, documents the experience of Babongo and Mitsogho villagers building a participatory three dimensional model (P3DM) of their home territory which includes the Waka National Park in the Chaillu Massif, Ngounié Province. Waka NP is purported to have the highest primate density of any place on Earth, in an isolated mountainous equatorial rainforest threatened by foreign logging concessions. This territory, mostly in Ikobey District, is also home to Babongo "Pygmies", an more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on April 22, 2011

From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking

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Director of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Center for Spatial Studies, Michael Goodchild discusses "From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking: The Changing Face of GIS (geographic information systems)" in this National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture. He discusses how individuals are using distributed, real-time data enabled by social networks to define landscapes that have been suddenly altered by floods, hurricanes and other acts of nature.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on November 29, 2010

Web 2.0 and advocacy - voices from the Philippines

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This short article summarizes the experience and methodologies of the ALDAW Network in bringing the voices of mining affected communities on Palawan Island (the Philippines) to national and international attention. The overall ALDAW campaign strategy combines community grounded work with several WEB 2.0 tools/platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, Blogs, Vlogs, Facebook, Geotagging, GoogleGroups, e-networking, and other tools for monitoring the occurrence of selected topics on the net, etc.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on February 25, 2011

Forest Governance 2.0: A Primer on ICTs and Governance

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This recent publication explores a range of uses of information and communication technology (including PGIS) that can increase public participation and improve law enforcement and economic efficiency to strengthen governance in the forest sector.Using the World Bank’s analytical framework for forest governance reforms, it draws on current and planned initiatives, from secondary sources and country reports.The emphasis is on simple, low cost tools that will spur the demand and supply of good more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on October 24, 2011

Free, Prior and Informed Consent in REDD+

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The principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting their resources is not new. However, experience using FPIC in REDD+ implementation is still limited in the Asia-Pacific region. Using relevant examples from a range of locations and sectors, this manual provides a basis for developing country-specific guidance on employing FPIC in REDD+ processes. This new report has been published more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on April 23, 2011

Looking Through a Mirror at our Past and Present: Account of a P3DM Exercise in Ethiopia

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The exercise – organised by MELCA-Ethiopia, a national NGO and supported by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), was a response to a call by the community for assistance in rehabilitating its environment which suffered heavy deforestation and soil degradation over the past decades. After several month of preparation, the exercise took place in the village of Telecho, Ethiopia on 8-18 December 2010. Close to 140 people worked in shifts on the model which more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on January 23, 2011

Indigenous Peoples and the European Union

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Supporting the rights of Indigenous peoples is an integral part of the European Union's human rights policy. The legal basis of the European Union's approach to working with and supporting indigenous peoples (IPs) is governed by the Commission Working Document on support for indigenous peoples which was adopted in 1998, followed by the Council Resolution which provides the main guidelines for the policy. In November 2002, the Conclusions on Indigenous Peoples recalled the commitment to the 1998 more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on November 20, 2010

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