Beyond Ground Truth: GIS and the Environmental Knowledge of Herders, Professional Foresters, and Other Traditional Communities
Beyond Ground Truth: GIS and the Environmental Knowledge of Herders, Professional Foresters, and Other Traditional Communities
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超越地面真相：GIS 和牧民、专业林务员和其他传统社区的环境知识
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2003
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P. Robbins
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由于全球信息系统和遥感技术的影响日益明显和成问题，人们更加重视在土地使用和覆盖分析中展示和纳入土著环境知识。这种方法虽然在人种学上具有启发性，在政治上也很有效，但往往会复制一种在认识论上站不住脚的地方知识和科学知识之间存在差异的模式。本文展示了地理信息系统和遥感图像的另一种用途，既展示了制图技术的优势，又展示了该工具关键用途的可能性。使用来自印度的案例，研究显示了一种方法，以获取和探索竞争的环境知识，包括，特别是那些“科学”专家。分析的结论是，当地生产者和专家管理人员，景观的文化意义取决于他们在区域生产和资源政治的作用。
As a result of increasingly apparent and problematic effects of global information system and remote sensing technologies, there has been increased emphasis on demonstrating and incorporating indigenous environmental knowledges in land use and cover analysis. Such approaches, though ethnographically revealing and politically efficacious, tend to reproduce a model of difference between local and scientific knowledges that is epistemologically untenable. This paper demonstrates an alternative use of geographic information system and remotely sensed imagery to both demonstrate the partiality of mapping technology and show possibilities for critical usage of the tool. Using a case from India, the research shows a method to elicit and explore competing environmental knowledges, including and especially those of “scientific” experts. The analysis concludes that, for both local producers and expert managers, the cultural meaning of landscapes is dependent on their roles in regional production and resource politics.