Abstract
Community GIS for Conservation Awareness
Track: Ecology and Conservation
Author
Geographic knowledge and ideas are not new concepts for human being. But, use of computer technology has widened the gap of geographic understating between the local people and GIS professionals. The concepts of 'Community GIS' stands on the spatial knowledge of local people and community base organization, their keen interest to understand the geographic analysis carried out by GIS professionals and lacks of geographic approach to build up common spatial understating. Community GIS aims to enhance the spatial thinking of local community and empower their decision making process. It aim to establish two way communication among GIS expert and local community which is not addressed by Participatory GIS. Community GIS approach for this paper is based on the experience of GIS application at community level in Nepal. This approach has applied through the establishment of 'Community GIS Centre' to update biodiversity resource database of Belshazzar Wetland Complex in Nepal.
Mahesh Pathak
SCGIS Nepal
GPO Box no 25226 Kathmandu
Kathmandu, Bagmati 0977
Nepal
Phone: 0097716916411
E-mail: pathakmsh@yahoo.com