Published In

Practicing Anthropology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2014

Subjects

Human ecology, Washington -- Olympic Peninsula, Cultural services, Landscape values, Geographic information systems -- Citizen participation, Mapping

Abstract

Values mapping that represents how humans associate with natural environments is useful for several purposes, including recognizing and addressing different perceptions of natural resource ownership and management priorities, documenting traditional ecological knowledge, and spatially identifying the public's perception of economic and non-economic services provided by natural resources (McLain et al. 2013). The majority of this work has been conducted in developing countries and with disenfranchised communities, where participatory mapping associated with natural resource management is more widely practiced. As access to GIS technology has expanded, however, several projects have tested the benefits of values mapping for natural resource management decisions in industrialized countries (e.g., Brown 2005; Klain and Chan 2012). This article discusses one such effort: the use of spatial values mapping to incorporate the concerns of Latino forest users into federal and state policies on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

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This work was authored as part of the Contributor's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.

Originally published in Practicing Anthropology and can be found online at: http://sfaajournals.net/doi/abs/10.17730/praa.36.1.3j78673527m17u26

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18113

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