The GLP working group Co-production of Sustainable Land Systems held its fourth webinar, on co-designing sustainable land systems with spatial analysis and mapping tools in land system science, in December 2018.
Land systems are inherently spatial. This means that participatory land use planning and management involve negotiation and decision-making processes on issues such as the location of things, activities, and responsibilities, or the connections and complementarities of functions among different areas. Therefore, tools that help visualising past and current, or modelling future states, extents, and interactions of spatial elements, can play a crucial role for the co-production of sustainable land systems. The three speakers will provide examples on how various types of mapping and spatial analysis tools can be used in participatory processes:
Joan Bastide (Senior Research Scientist, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland. Coordinator of OneMap Myanmar project): In Myanmar, the allocation of land to large-scale palm oil plantations have generated severe conflicts between local communities, government, private companies and ethnic armed groups. In order to address the complex land disputes, stakeholders are now collaborating towards the co-production of land use assessment data and tools by mobilising drones, interactive web mapping, participatory data collection and validation, and multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms. Based on this process, unused land will be redistributed to landless communities and internally displaced populations.
Michael Uwemedimo (Project Director, CMAP, Nigeria). Michael’s project endeavours to give excluded communities in Port Harcourt (Nigeria) the power to put themselves on the map, to identify and analyse key problems and potentials, in view of giving focus to future planning interventions. Youth-led participatory mapping teams are leading the citywide data collection component. Their efforts have ensured that informal settlements across the city are now included in the most ambitious water and sanitation infrastructure project in Nigeria. In his presentation, Michael, will provide insights into this project, which will form the foundation of an inclusive City Development Strategy.
Giacomo Rambaldi (Senior Programme Coordinator, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Netherlands). For the past 20 years, Giacomo has been animating a large community of practitioners engaged in the conduct of participatory mapping, later on dubbed as participatory GIS (PGIS). He will illustrate the diversity of PGIS practices with practical examples and then focus on the use of participatory 3D modelling and on case studies in the Pacific region where the participatory process and follow-up actions have led to profound positive change.
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Presentations
Opening and closing slides, Isabelle Providoli (PDF, 4.6 MB)
Introduction, Albrecht Ehrensperger (PDF, 1 MB)
Protecting smallholder access to land through the coproduction of spatial data in Myanmar, Joan Bastide (PDF, 2.1 MB)
PGIS practices with focus on the use of participatory 3D modelling in the Pacific Region, Giacomo Rambaldi (PDF, 3.6 MB)
Additional Resources
Participatory 3D Modelling in Samoa, by Barbara Dovarch and provided by Giacomo Rambaldi (PDF, 2.2 MB)
You can also view recordings of the first three webinars and download supplementary materials on the working group's homepage.
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Please direct any questions about the webinar or working group to Isabelle Providoli.