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Using Participatory Mapping to Foster Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Forest Fire-Prone Areas: The Case of Monchique in Portugal
Fire
2022
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09/22/2022
Abstract
Local knowledge and communities' active role in disaster risk areas are recognized in the liter-ature as key conditions to better understand risks, enhance adaptive capacities and foster local resilience. A participatory action research project in forest fire-prone areas in Monchique, Por-tugal, is aligned with the literature and adopts participatory mapping as a method that can bring evidence to the importance of local knowledge and communities’ agency. In the BRIDGE Project, different types of knowledge are integrated, triggering local/collective agency and fostering a forest fire community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach. An innovation labora-tory (InnoLab) provides the space for dialogue and knowledge sharing for different actors that manage forest territories. In the InnoLab, participatory mapping is used as a method to engage landowners where risk factors and local vulnerabilities were identified. Their active engage-ment enabled a collective perception in the assessment of vulnerability and led to the identifica-tion of strategic measures for risk reduction. This paper shares the process and outcomes of this participatory mapping, highlighting the benefits of a community approach and the importance of local knowledge and practices as recognized in the literature. It also reveals how the active role of local stakeholders can help drive a CBDRR process
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Authors in the community:
Guilherme Saad Ximenes
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Joana Fernandes Dias
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AO - Author's Original
Title of the publication container
Fire
Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)
environmental-engineering - Environmental engineering
Keywords
- community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR)
- participatory mapping
- social learning
- forest fire risk reduction
- transformative change
Publication language (ISO code)
eng - English
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https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/_NF7DwV7A-IrtdhvAaH-sWJ24wkmTTAkyyHG
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