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QES-AS meet with phd student Marcondes Coelho junior | ubatuba - brazil

1/7/2020

Connecting the QES-AS from Ulagos (Chile) and UFRRJ (Brazil)

Working plan partnership between Universidad de Los Lagos and Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro through the call QES-AS from York University | Climate Justice
The scholars QES-AS talked about yours researchs projects and coordinate the visiting of Marcondes Coelho Jr. in the Lab. of Citizen Science (LabC) at Universidad de Los Lagos (Chile) in June 2020. They will work in the participatory mapping approach about the ecosystem services in the Quilombo do Campinho da Independencia (Paraty - Brazil).

Follow the research projects support by QES-AS York University:

presentation in seminar of disaster risk reduction in geological institute | sao paulo-brazil

12/3/2019

Seminar of Disaster Risk Reduction IG-SMA - Brazil

Presentation of CoAdapta | Litoral and citizen science projects to disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the examples in Brazil, Chile and Africa in the XI Seminar of Strategies to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) to Geodynamic Events in the State of São Paulo aims to evaluate strategies and actions for risk reduction and disasters developed in 2019.

More information of the DRR seminar in Brazil in this link.
The Program seminar.

academic meeting at usp, faculty of public health | sao paulo, brazil

12/3/2019

Academic meeting 'Participatory mapping as a tool for the integration of knowledge in urban and environmental health'

The academic meeting with the theme “Participatory mapping as a tool for the integration of knowledge in urban and environmental health” which will be moderated by Dr. Leandro Luiz Giatti, from the Department of Environmental Health at FSP/USP. This academic meeting aims to reflect on the concepts of engagement, participation and social learning, which make up the process of participatory mapping and its applications in urban studies and environmental health.

The event is an organization by Department of Environmental Health; Postgraduate Program in Public Health, Professional Master's in Environment, Health and Sustainability; and research team of the MacroAmb Thematic Project (FAPESP proc.n. 2015 / 03804-9).
Coordination: Dra. Carolina Monteiro de Carvalho and Dr. Leandro Luiz Giatti.
More information about the event in this link.

Capacity building | EDUCATION TO DRR IN NORTHERN COAST OF SAO PAULO - BRAZIL

11/30/2019

Module 4 | Social cartography + GIS and SDI

Capacity building of education professionals and others interested in the disasters risk prevention on the municipalities of Northern coast of Sao Paulo - Caraguatatuba, Ilhabela, Sao Sebastiao and Ubatuba. The course is based on action research and citizen science, which encourages the co-knowledge production, research and local monitoring with the involvement of the community and of public institutions. This module presented the tools of social cartography, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

Organizers: CTEA-CBHLN; Diretoria de Ensino Caraguatatuba; Cemaden-Educacao; Instituto Geológico; Universidad de Los Lagos.
For more information in this link

course | interdisciplinary tools for territorial investigation at ulagos (chile)

11/25/2019

Module 2 | Social cartography, participatory GIS + GPS and drone applications

The course offered different interdisciplinary tools for territorial research projects using the follow methods: multicriteria analysis, mediated modeling and participatory mapping; the expert choice, open source software and software open for mapping. Each methodological tool will be contextualized in its respective theoretical approach - Post-normal Science, Systemic Thinking, Participatory mapping).

Organizers: Universidad de Los Lagos. Coordinator - Francisco Ther. Collaborators - Allan Yu Iwama and Lorenzo Delgado.

visiting partners in mozambique - africa (III)

10/2/2019

Network with Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo - Mozambique

Through the research network of QES Climate Justice in York University (Canada), Dr. Allan Iwama presented the CoAdapta | Litoral in the post-graduate students Seminar at the invitation of Dra. Nicia Giva from the Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering in the Eduardo Mondlane University. They exchange your experiencies in the citizen science initiatives to establish futures collaborations projects. On this opportunity, Dra. Nicia introduced Dr. Luis Artur, a expert researcher in disaster response and local adaptations to climate change in Mozambique (Africa).

See the articles from the Mozambican researchers: Artur and Hilhorst (2012); Giva and Raitio (2017)

visiting partners in mozambique - africa (II)

10/2/2019

Network with Technical University of Maputo (UDM) - Mozambique

Through the research network of the LABGEC of NEPAM/UNICAMP (Brazil), and support from the QES Climate Justice in York University (Canada), Dr. Allan Iwama presented the CoAdapta | Litoral for investigators in sociology, disasters, economy and gender, at the invitation of Dr. Giverage Amaral from the UDM in Maputo. They talked about the risk and adaptation strategies to climate change, from the examples as the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Idai and Tropical Cyclone Kenneth occurred in 2019.

On this opportunity, Dr. Amaral introduced Dr. Rui da Maia, director of Disaster Risk Management at UDM bringing experiences together to future collaborations. Also, the Dr. José Maria Langa - professor at UDM - was presented by Dr. Amaral. Together, the two Mozambican researchers led the creation of the Environmental Observatory for Climate Change - the ObservA, which seeks to bring the climate change theme to the local community of Mozambique, through participatory methodologies and the focus on citizen science as a community involvement strategy to respond to the effects of the climatic extreme events.
The the researchers' meeting established the synergies for connecting the LabC-Ulagos in Chile with ObservA in Mozambique.

visiting partners in mozambique - africa (I)

9/27/2019

Meeting with Dr. Izidro Muhale from Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Maputo - Mozambique

The meeting occurred in Maputo city, through the initial research network of the LABGEC of NEPAM/UNICAMP (Brazil), and support from the QES Climate Justice in York University (Canada). Dr. Allan Iwama and Dr. Izidro Muhale talked about possibilities of investigation between your projects research and establish connections between citizen science research in Brazil, Africa and Chile.

QES-AS meet with phd student Ferrial adam in johannesburg | south africa

9/22/2019

Connecting the QES scholars from Ulagos (Chile) and U. of Johannesburg (South Africa)

The QES scholars meet happened in Johannesburg centre through of QES network | Ecological Economics, Commons Governance, and Climate Justice at York University (Canada). Ferrial Adam is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at University of Johannesburg and environmental justice activist. Her work explores how poor communities in South Africa, which are located near polluting industries, are using science to obtain evidence of water pollution.

Both researchers are preparing an article in collaboration about a critical citizen science in yours research placement. For more information about the QES-AS projects:

Citizen Science and Environmental Justice, led by Ferrial Adam
CoAdapta | Litoral, led by Allan Iwama

fieldwork in chiloé island and maullín

8/12/2019

Interviews with Nucleos CoAdapta local researchers about the action research and social cartography activities

In 10 consecutive days, Allan Iwama together with the audiovisual team went through Chiloé island and Maullín to met the Nucleos CoAdapta and record the moments when they carried out their action research, and social cartography activities.
Drone photos were recorded to identify coastal risks and evacuation routes in the event of tsunamis.

casa dos povos | Casa de los pueblos

7/11/2019

International meeting of Traditional Peoples in Latin America, in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The International Workshop of Traditional Peoples and Communities on Sustainable Development and Territories, which taked place in Paraty, between the 11th and 14th of July 2019, as part of the official program of the "Casa dos Povos/Casa de los Pueblos" during the International Literary Festival of Paraty (FLIP). Participants from countries such as Angola, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Portugal, as well as leaders from the Forum of Traditional Communities from Angra dos Reis, Paraty and Ubatuba - caiçara, indigenous and quilombola -, came togheter to articulate a network traditional territories in Africa, Europe and Latin America around a common agenda for well-being that takes into account the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Workshop of Traditional Peoples and Communities in OTSS. Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo credits: Allan Iwama (2019)

The workshop is an initiative of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Observatory of Sustainable and Healthy Territories of Bocaina (OTSS), a ten-year partnership between Fiocruz and the Forum of Traditional Communities in Angra dos Reis, Paraty and Ubatuba (FCT).

The CoAdapta | Litoral added the initiative in partnership with FCT with Mapuche indigenous leaders and CoAdapta project participants.
See the interview of OTSS communication team with the leader Mapuche from Mon Fen de Yaldad, Quellón (Chile), Cristian Chiguay. Interview in Spanish:

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More information about the Casa dos Povos meeting:

Entre algunas limitaciones e incongruencias que se encuentran en los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenibles (ODS), están la exclusión a los pueblos indígenas | Among some limitations and inconsistencies found in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are the exclusion of indigenous peoples [Dali Angel representing the FILAC]

Coadapta in york University

5/13/2019

Seminar in Faculty of Environmental Sciences (FES) at York University

In 13th May 2019, Dr. Allan Iwama spoke about his QES-AS project to an intimate audience at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Dr. Iwama spoke about action-research using citizen science to integrate local and scientific knowledge through participatory GIS in responding to climate change challenges in the Chile and Brazil. The traditional and local community involved in the CoAdapta project are Mapuche indigenous people and artisanal fishers from Chiloé Archipelago and Maullín (Chile) and quilombolas and artisanal fishers from southeast coast of Brazil.

See the CoAdapta | Litoral presentation here.

calacs at 50 in york university

5/12/2019

Participation in panel at Canadian Association for Latin American Studies (CALACS)

See here the presentation in the CALACS Panel.

See here the Calacs programation in 2019.

From 10 to 12 May 2019, Dr. Allan Iwama participate of the CALACS congress in Toronto at York Universty. Dr. Iwama spoke about the initiatives on open science and the social mobilisation in territory in Brazil and Chile. The participation took place in the Panel of "Participatory Democracy in Brazil - The legacy of Betinho", coordinated by Dra. Andrea Moraes of the Ryerson University.