Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications

Part1. Sources, impacts, and the perspectives on resource conflicts.- Chapter1. Natural Resources, Conflict of Interests and their Management.- Chapter2. Sources, Impacts and Management of Natural Resources Conflicts.- Chapter3. Perspectives on Natural Resource Conflicts.- Part2. Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management.- Chapter4. Participatory Mapping and management of natural resource conflicts.- Chapter5. The Development of Community-based GIS Applications.- Chapter6. The impact of geospatial data processing on conflict-supporting beliefs.- Chapter7. Case study: Participatory mapping and management of conflict of interests over allocation of resources within the Aboma Forest Reserve at Kofiase, Ghana.- Part3. Assessment of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management.- Chapter8. Important factors in successful Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management.- Chapter9. Appraisal of the roles of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management.- Chapter10. Conclusion.

Dr. Peter Amos Kwaku Kyem has a Ph.D. in Geography (1997) from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. His Ph.D. research was on Participatory GIS Applications Forest Resources Management. Dr. Kyem's educational experience spans across three continents, Africa, Europe, and North America. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Cape Coast, at Cape Coast in his native Ghana (1982), he moved to the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, ITC, Enschede, in the Netherlands where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Geomorphology (1987). He then went to Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, for his Master of Arts degree in Geography (1991) before proceeding to Clark University, Worcester, MA, the USA, for his Ph.D.

At Clark University, Dr. Kyem worked in different Research capacities at Clark Labs, which is best known for its flagship product, the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software. He was a member of the team of researchers at Clark Labs that developed a Comprehensive Decision Support Tools in Idrisi GIS in 1993. After graduating from Clark University, Dr. Kyem went to teach at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching GIS, Resource Management, and other courses in Geography since 1997.

Dr. Kyem has had a long association with the PGIS movement. Based on his Ph.D. thesis research, he was invited to a workshop on GIS and Society at Santa Barbara, CA, in 1998. The workshop, sponsored by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), discussed issues that were central to the development of the PPGIS movement. Since then, Dr. Kyem has published several research articles and made conference presentations on Resource Conflicts and PGIS Applications. His publications on the topic for the proposed book appear in reputable peer-reviewed journals such as the Annals of the Association of American