Stevens, Matthias;
Vitos, Michalis;
Lewis, Jerome;
Haklay, Muki;
(2013)
Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin.
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The Proceedings of the 22nd GISRUK conference.
GISRUK: Liverppol, UK.
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Abstract
Supporting communities to share and apply their knowledge of local environmental conditions using scientifically accepted methods can lead to improvements in environmental governance and social-environmental justice. In this paper we discuss our project that seeks to enable the Mbendjele hunter-gatherers in the Congo basin rainforests to monitor and map the activities of commercial poachers in their area. The goal is to allow more effective control over poachers, and, moreover, to curb the harassment the Mbendjele suffer at the hands of corrupt “eco-guards”. The fact that the users are non-literate as wells as the harsh rainforest conditions pose significant challenges that we are tackling with our “Anti-Poaching” data collection platform, of which we describe the first prototype.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin |
| Event: | GISRUK 2013, the 21st GIS Research UK conference |
| Location: | Liverpool, England, UK |
| Dates: | 2013-04-02 - 2013-04-05 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://gisruk.org/conference/proceedings/ |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Citizen Science, Mobile Sensing, Conservation, Natural Resource Management, Social-Environmental Justice |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1393554 |
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