Third in the Forests and Oceans for the Future Seminars Series
Mar 8th, 2006 by cmenzies
Seminar 3: Dr. Ian Davidson-Hunt. (U. Manitoba) “Mobilizing knowledge for community-based resource management”
Wednesday, March 22. 7:30 – 9:00 pm, Room 205 AnSo Building (6303 NW Marine Drive. Parking available in the Rose Garden Parkade
ABSTRACT: The knowledge held by local communities has often been seen as an input for others to generate solutions for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation. However, communities are increasingly asserting that their knowledge is the substrate out of which solutions can emerge. This is consistent with an approach to community-based planning that begins from Friedman’s assertion that planning is the art of turning knowledge into action. Many community-based resource management initiatives begin with a process that brings people from within the community together to document what they know about their place. This information may be shared orally or as in many cases it is recorded through community mapping projects. Such community inventories allow people to recognize and affirm the things they would like to conserve as well as identify new opportunities that they might pursue. While local knowledge and community-based planning are the core of these initiatives many have also partnered with external technical and/or research organizations to provide them with access to new information that they can consider as they pursue their initiatives. This presentation will draw upon community-based resource management initiatives that have been undertaken through the Equator Initiative and with the Whitefeather Forest Initiative.
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