Community Mapping & QGIS. A climate and disaster risk mapping toolkit for local communities

Pouvalu, Siu I. F. (2015) Community Mapping & QGIS. A climate and disaster risk mapping toolkit for local communities. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

This tool-kit was developed under the EUGCCA project implemented by the Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development. It aims to empower local people to understand, make better decisions and better represent themselves to local governments and NGO’s. It will also train users to collect and transfer data to GIS file format and keep data in communities. Lastly, the tool-kit will train users on skills to visually represent their data to highlight issues, risks etc.This tool-kit falls within the Participatory GIS (PGIS) framework which focuses on direct community involvement in knowledge creation through GIS technologies. This document will accompany provided free open source software, shapefiles and georeferenced images. The tools included are: QGIS, Apache Open Office and VLC. In addition to this video tutorials, shapefiles and georeferenced datasets are provided to assist users.The tools and methods has been successfully piloted in three communities in Fiji.It has also been trialed with 30 participants that gave feedback and evaluated the tool-kit as a whole.

Item Type:	Other
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GA Mathematical geography. Cartography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GB Physical geography H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD)
Depositing User:	Siu I Fanga Pouvalu
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2016 03:40
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2016 01:09
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/8785

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