Abstract

Climate Change and the local communities from Lagamar Brazil
Track: Climate Change
Authors: Renato de Toledo, Ernesto Giron

This project haves two overlapping fronts: First there is an 'community mapping', that works with traditional communities to mapping cultural spots (religious places, economical activities, folklore sites, landmarks, historical sites, community business, and so on), the local stakeholders are trained for mapping and for sharing the data through the Web. And there is the work on spatial analysis, based on IPCC Climate models, to predict regional future scenarios (Climate Change over crops and forests and Sea Level Rise). The selected region for this project is called 'LAGAMAR' That is a large and isolated region. A Very well preserved estuary with mangroves and lowland forest. About 30,000 people lives there, like Native Americans communities, African communities (old escaped slave shelters) and mixed communities with European contribution (traditional fisherman). This work provides data to be shared at ArcGis.com by may 2012 to be developed and analyzed by local stakeholders.