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Cobell Institute

Objectives

  1. Provide training in GIScience and Indigenous Geographic Information Systems.
  2. Facilitate GIS services to partners.
  3. Develop GIS resources for research and education.
  4. Cover GIS requirements to support community engagement in governance and research (e.g., Participatory GIS, Community-Based Participatory Research).

Projects

Indigenizing community-based participatory research for adaptive forest management planning: contributions by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana.

Publications

Participatory Geographic Information Systems as an organizational platform for the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge in contemporary fire and fuels management

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