The CoAdapta | Litoral
The CoAdapta | Litoral is a project funded by Conicyt-Fondecyt 3180705 (2018-2021) at Universidad de Los Lagos (Chile), with support the of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships Advanced Scholars Program (QES-AS) at York University (Canada).
A quantitative and qualitative approach is proposed for vulnerability analysis and climate change adaptation, focusing on the community living in risk areas. The research advance in the multiple knowledge systems based on citizen science approach, integrating the local knowledge and scientific knowledge for reduce climate-related to disasters . See here the CoAdapta presentation.
A quantitative and qualitative approach is proposed for vulnerability analysis and climate change adaptation, focusing on the community living in risk areas. The research advance in the multiple knowledge systems based on citizen science approach, integrating the local knowledge and scientific knowledge for reduce climate-related to disasters . See here the CoAdapta presentation.
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This projetc started in 2010 during the doctoral research project by Unicamp, the Center for Environmental Studies and Research (NEPAM), part of a thematic project funded by Fapesp, the Clima-Gente project, which involved several research centers (NEPAM, NEPO, IB) and partnerships. See (Iwama, 2014; Iwama et al. 2014; Iwama et al. 2016).
In 2017-2018 period, a postdoctoral research proposal was sent to Faperj to work on co-management of the territory for disaster risk mapping, via the Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (IBICT), associate with UFRJ for the Graduate Program in Information Science (PPGCI). Then the project started with the name CoAdapta | Litoral. In 2018-2021 period, the CoAdapta | Litoral project has been developed a citizen science approach to integrate the local and scientific knowledges about the vulnerability situations and adaptation options to climate change. The approach use the social cartography and participatory GIS, the local interviews with working groups in each community (artisanal fishers and indigenous mapuches) in Chile and (artisanal fishers and quilombolas) in Brazil. |
The principal goal of the CoAdapta | Litoral is to integrate the local perception with scientific knowlegde of communities in coastal areas in risk and vulnerability situations to enviromental change and climate risks. The project explores in their different contexts possibilities to enhance their adaptation to climate risks through strategies and actions on community-based in risk co-management.
The specific objetives follow a citizen science approach to: (1) identify the risk and vulnerability in the context of climate change in Chiloé island and the northern coast of São Paulo, focusing on the perception of the local community; (2) integrate the risk and vulnerability mapping produced by institucional database and scientific methods with social cartography; (3) co-design in practice the risk management actions with coastal communities experiencing risk situations, natural disasters and climate change effects. |
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In both areas there are experiences in the development of participatory mapping (Iwama and Delgado, 2017, Ther and Bravo, 2012, Zambra et al., 2015). Nevertheless the adaptation plans based on local knowledge has not yet been explored to develop the strategies for adaptation to disaster and climate change effects.
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They are in coastal zones between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic, areas exposed to threats such as floods and coastal dynamics, in areas where are an important productive activities (Araos, 2014, Silva 2014). There are traditional communities with different vulnerabilities (Silva, 2014, Ther and Bravo, 2012; Iwama et al. 2016)
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