AbstractGeo-Enabling Local Communities and Conservation in BrazilTrack: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs Author At the Iracambi Research Center, SE Brazil, they are working on the cutting edge of sustainable development. Their job is to find better ways of managing both forested and cleared land and work with the local community to figure out ways that both forests and people can flourish. GIS has been instrumental in monitoring this activity by being able, for the first, time to show how mining activity could affect land and local communities. I will outline the GIS techniques and strategies we used to show illegal mining activity using Esri ArcGIS and discuss how GIS is used in other ways at this unique research institute. GIS provides maps and other information resources to identify the critical areas for conservation and the environmental degradation hot spots and provides local planning agencies with the technical assistance that will allow them to make rational decisions on conservation management and planning. Steven Eglinton GeoEnable / Tube Lines |