The challenge of building resilience in social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to build adaptive capacities, coordinating their socio-economic interests with local ecological settings to promote sustainable development.
Land use planning is a tool geared to help decision-making processes for sustainable development, thus, for the sustainable use of soils. The ecological-economic zoning (ZEE), was developed as an alternative approach to the agro-ecological zoning as a type of zoning which integrates physical land resources elements with socio-economic factors and a wider range of land uses in zone definitions.
With the aim of halting deforestation and stabilizing populations settled in the buffer zone of Cordillera Azul National Park, an outer range of the Andes that extends into the Peruvian Amazon, we have designed an intervention model focusing on the strengths of the communities (Strengthening Local Capacity for Conservation, FOCAL). Central to this process is a communal participatory zoning (ZPC) integrating knowledge from technical studies (i.e., soils, crops, vegetation and other biophysical characteristics of the landscape), as well as local knowledge on the distribution and uses of resources and threats and risks to local ecosystems, across time and space.
Based on an example, we will discuss this bottom-up participatory approach, that is also useful for building the adaptive capacity of the populations surrounding the park. Focusing on the concept of resilience, we will review the principles and processes that enabled the integration of different knowledge systems to build institutions and capacities for adaptive learning.
Although the development of the process is time consuming, this approach is promoting changes and long-term commitments, and might become an official tool for adaptive land use planning in Peru.
Ringvorlesung with Dr. Lily O. Rodriguez
Date: 23.04.2015, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS I
Organiser: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by University of Bonn from 22.04.2015The challenge of building resilience in social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to build adaptive capacities, coordinating their socio-economic interests with local ecological settings to promote sustainable development.
Land use planning is a tool geared to help decision-making processes for sustainable development, thus, for the sustainable use of soils. The ecological-economic zoning (ZEE), was developed as an alternative approach to the agro-ecological zoning as a type of zoning which integrates physical land resources elements with socio-economic factors and a wider range of land uses in zone definitions.
With the aim of halting deforestation and stabilizing populations settled in the buffer zone of Cordillera Azul National Park, an outer range of the Andes that extends into the Peruvian Amazon, we have designed an intervention model focusing on the strengths of the communities (Strengthening Local Capacity for Conservation, FOCAL). Central to this process is a communal participatory zoning (ZPC) integrating knowledge from technical studies (i.e., soils, crops, vegetation and other biophysical characteristics of the landscape), as well as local knowledge on the distribution and uses of resources and threats and risks to local ecosystems, across time and space.
Based on an example, we will discuss this bottom-up participatory approach, that is also useful for building the adaptive capacity of the populations surrounding the park. Focusing on the concept of resilience, we will review the principles and processes that enabled the integration of different knowledge systems to build institutions and capacities for adaptive learning.
Although the development of the process is time consuming, this approach is promoting changes and long-term commitments, and might become an official tool for adaptive land use planning in Peru.
Ringvorlesung with Dr. Lily O. Rodriguez
Date: 23.04.2015, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS I
Organiser: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by University of Bonn from 22.04.2015