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ProfessorWouterBuytaert

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1329w.buytaert Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

403ASkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Buytaert:2018:10.4324/9780429507090,
author = {Buytaert, W and Ochoa, Tocachi B and Hannah, DM and Clark, J and Dewulf, A},
booktitle = {Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: Trade-offs and Governance},
doi = {10.4324/9780429507090},
editor = {Schreckenberg and Mace and Poudyal},
pages = {174--188},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis Group},
title = {Co-generating knowledge on ecosystem services and the role of new technologies},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507090},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Policy makers are increasingly aware that decision-making in the context of ecosystem services management, and of development, can benefit from collaborative and inclusive approaches to knowledge generation and the design of intervention strategies, such as by providing a more prominent role for indigenous knowledge in decision-making and by using participatory methods for data collection and knowledge generation. In this chapter, we discuss how technologies such as mobile phones, low-cost and robust sensors, and increasingly pervasive remote-sensing satellites and drones can be particularly transformative in the way they facilitate the creation, access and transmission of information about ecosystem services, and support evidence-based decision-making. Furthermore, we discuss how these technologies can be used to promote stakeholder involvement in the knowledge generation process and to make it more inclusive and participatory. While we highlight potential risks related to the use of new technologies, such as exploitation by specific stakeholders to support specific agendas or interests, we identify opportunities for an increasing diversification and tailoring of knowledge creation, moving away from a top-down process dominated by scientists and toward more decentralised, bottom-up and iterative approaches that can have a transformative impact on local ecosystem services management, making it more inclusive, polycentric, evidence-based and robust.
AU  - Buytaert,W
AU  - Ochoa,Tocachi B
AU  - Hannah,DM
AU  - Clark,J
AU  - Dewulf,A
DO  - 10.4324/9780429507090
EP  - 188
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 9780429016295
SP  - 174
TI  - Co-generating knowledge on ecosystem services and the role of new technologies
T1  - Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: Trade-offs and Governance
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507090
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429507090
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72591
ER  -
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