Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

摘要: Critical knowledge gaps seriously hinder efforts for building disaster resilience at all levels, especially in disaster-prone least developed countries. Information deficiency is most serious local terms of spatial information on risk, resources, and capacities communities. To tackle this challenge, we develop a general methodological approach that integrates community-based participatory mapping processes, one has been widely used by governments non-government organizations the fields natural resources management, risk reduction rural development, with emerging collaborative digital techniques. We demonstrate value potential integrated conducting pilot study flood-prone lower Karnali river basin Western Nepal. The process engaged wide range stakeholders non-stakeholder citizens to co-produce locally relevant geographic capacities, flood risks selected new community maps are richer content, more accurate, easier update share than those produced conventional Vulnerability Capacity Assessments (VCAs), variant Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), various government organizations. discuss how may provide an effective link between coordinating implementing interventions designing informing regional development plans, as well its limitations technological barrier, map ownership, empowerment potential.