Innovative tools for mastering space in collaborative natural resource management
2003
Rambaldi, G. (Asian Development Bank, Manila (Philippines)) Manila, A.
The paper focuses on the evolution of community-based mapping techniques as methods used for enabling marginalized communities to depict their knowledge of their territory through geo-referenced and scaled data and to visualize it in two or three dimensions. In particular, the paper discusses the Participatory 3-D Modeling (P3DM) and its popular use in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam initially in the context of collaborative natural resource management and lately in protected area management. The evolution of using P3DM in these countries and its recent integration with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are discussed along with the presence or absence of enabling environments. Through a participatory process, P3DM captures local knowledge such as contour intervals to produce functional stand-alone relief models. The process proved to generate a high level of awareness on the use and distribution of resources over relatively vast areas and on the functioning of linked ecosystems, 3-D models provide stakeholders with an efficient user-friendly and relatively accurate spatial learning and research, planning and management tool, the information from which can be extracted and further elaborated in a GIS environment. It also provides an opportunity to master the space at the grassroots level and is instrumental in improving the capacity of communities to interact with national and international institutions. Through the process that go along with P3DM, communities also become proactive in inducing change and/or innovation in terms of resource allocation and management. P3DM models are currently used in Southeast Asia for a) conducting community-based research on distribution of and access to resources in protected areas and critical watersheds; b) developing resource use, ancestral domain and protected area management plans; c) negotiating boundary delineation and zoning; d) raising environmental awareness; e) facilitating conflict resolutions; and f) addressing resource tenure issues
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