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Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State‐of‐the‐Practice
Author(s) -
Tripathi Nitesh,
Bhattarya Shefali
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2004.tb00112.x
Subject(s) - natural resource management , indigenous , premise , traditional knowledge , knowledge management , natural resource , citizen journalism , traditional knowledge gis , resource management (computing) , geographic information system , resource (disambiguation) , environmental resource management , participatory gis , information system , environmental planning , computer science , geography , engineering , gis and public health , political science , ecology , world wide web , remote sensing , philosophy , law , computer network , linguistics , environmental science , gis day , biology , electrical engineering
Experience has shown that development efforts that ignore indigenous knowledge (IK), local systems of knowledge, and the local environment generally fail to achieve their desired objectives. IK systems are becoming extinct because of rapidly changing natural and social environments. A Geographic Information System provides a framework to document and store indigenous knowledge meaningfully. Participation by the local community in development initiatives is critical for achieving sound natural resource management to utilize the full potential of IK systems. The main premise of this paper is to review the literature available on the approach of integrating indigenous knowledge with Geographic Information Systems as a way of promoting participatory natural resource management and giving opportunity to the local community to participate in development programs and decision‐making both as contributors and as users of knowledge.