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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Participatory mapping"”.
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… dynamics situated at those points. This was participatory in nature, guided by the ethical stance of conducting research with people, rather than for people. Findings in both countries point to the importance of high-leverage system intervention. In particular, intervention at the level of …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… dynamics situated at those points. This was participatory in nature, guided by the ethical stance of conducting research with people, rather than for people. Findings in both countries point to the importance of high-leverage system intervention. In particular, intervention at the level of …
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Participatory Mapping of Health Indicators and Services as a Tool for Anticipatory Co Planning: Finding the local vioce in the rural context
A key factor to the Scottish Governments' Public policy and public service reconfiguration is collaborative working between service providers and service users in a framework of co-production. Despite this rhetoric of co-production of health services having been used for some time in health policy, …
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Transformative lines: a mapping approach to explore urban imaginaries and opportunities for socially sustainable change in Beirut, Lebanon
… This thesis develops and tests a place-based mapping methodology – Transformative Lines – to explore how residents’ spatial narratives and urban imaginaries can inform more socially sustainable urban development strategies. The research adopts a qualitative case study approach focused on two …
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Toward Understanding Geodiversity Perception in Grayson County, Virginia through Geodiversity Mapping
… understanding geodiversity values through public participatory mapping in Grayson County, Virginia. Objectives of this research were to: 1) map and model geodiversity using lithology, topography, hydrology, and microclimatic data; 2) design and implement a survey on geodiversity values and the …
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Syndemic Health Impacts and Environmental Risk Perceptions Associated with Mining Among the Ch'orti' of Eastern Guatemala
… grow around the world. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, we utilized a combination of participatory mapping, interviews, and community mapping workshops to examine the underlying patterns and perceptions of environmental risk and healthy and unhealthy spaces in the …
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Understanding Hindus' and Muslims' solutions for peace in Gujarat, India
… with three key informants and she also conducted participatory mapping of the communities.Data analyses of the transcribed interviews was performed by two coders using the Grounded Theory approach in the target language, i.e., Hindi. Four main themes emerged: (1) descriptions of the community, (2) …
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Using Qualitative Geographic Information Systems to Explore Gendered Dimensions for Conservation Agriculture Production Systems in the Philippines: A Mixed Methods Approach
… focus group discussions, household interviews, participatory mapping, and GPS mapping. I found that men and women have gendered soil perceptions which are linked to topography, gender roles, and access to assets. These could have implications for whether men and women adopt conservation …
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Gendered dimensions of Conservation Agriculture in Northwestern Cambodia
… interviews, household surveys, and participatory mapping, we explore the effect of conservation agriculture on men's and women's allocation of labor, gendered power relations in intra-household negotiations, and access to resources and information. I found that conservation …
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Mapping Belizean bonefish, permit, and tarpon fisheries and their threats
… and Tarpon (BPT) fisheries and their threats. Participatory mapping and ethnographic surveying of the professional sport-fishing guide community was completed. In addition to reporting the locations of BPT and their threats, this research uses high resolution satellite remote sensing (3m) to …
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The codification of local knowledges through digital cartographic artefacts: A Case study of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
… Team, affectionately known as HOT, worked on mapping the city of Dar es Salaam between 2014 and 2020. The efforts of HOT were designed to not only build a map of the city that would ‘put people on the map’, but to also use these maps to aid in development and humanitarian interventions through …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… interviews, participant observation, and participatory mapping exercises formed the basis of the research. Documentation, discussion, and mapping focused on place names and sacred sites as particularly illuminating repositories of environmental knowledge expressed in language. The maps …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… interviews, participant observation, and participatory mapping exercises formed the basis of the research. Documentation, discussion, and mapping focused on place names and sacred sites as particularly illuminating repositories of environmental knowledge expressed in language. The maps …
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Human Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services: A mixed-methods study of Shade-Grown Coffee in Veracruz, Mexico
… interview, supported by exploratory methods like participatory mapping, ranking, and inventories. The sample is intentionally small to achieve breadth of these methodologies. The study highlights the intellectual challenge of fitting a practical issue to a theoretical framework, and of …
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Gender and Pest Management in Ghana: Implications for the Introduction of an IPM Program for Tomato
… focus group discussions, household interviews, participatory mapping, field visits, key informant interviews, participant observation, and a survey. Key findings in the areas of health and safety, markets and the tomato value chain, and information and training reveal general and gender-specific …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
… fundraising events. Additionally, I conducted a participatory mapping workshop with youth at the museum to engage with youths' collective memories of the city and the way that mapping practices in and from the favela contest representations of Rio de Janeiro. In the first chapter, I trace a brief …
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Participatory rural appraisal approaches, to improve public participation in South African EIA
… their participation. Rural Appraisals like Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), which originated in Africa and Asia, have been used in other research fields outside Environmental Management to reach the lower-class citizens. The aim of this research was to investigate to what extent the …
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A collaborative approach for disaster risk reduction: mapping social learning with Mistawasis Nêhiyawak
… research design, I explored the role of participatory processes, including communication of scientific knowledge to lay-experts, in social learning. First, I created flood extent maps for the community using spatial data and modeling techniques. In the second phase, I presented the maps …
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Inundações e mapeamento participativo na localidade de Baixa de Santa Rita - Salvador/BA
… of Baixa de Santa Rita, in Salvador, through a participatory mapping, correlating this information with the perception of the community and the actions of the public authorities. The methodology adopted involves a qualitative approach, with semi-structured interviews conducted with residents of …
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