Resource

Community Geotimeline

Author/Contact:

TURAS
Expert contact: Lucelia Rodrigues

Publication date:

Resource description:

Online tool for harnessing and assessing community capital and resilience.

Requirements:

  • The gathering and sharing of community-related data are not only beneficial for the community itself, but also for planners, researchers and the local authorities. It can reveal internal relationships or path-dependencies of current developments such as t

Advantages:

  • The GeoTimeline tool facilitates an understanding of the relationship between community assets and the levels and quality of social cohesion. It collects both qualitative and quantitative data distributed over time and space. It shows the temporal and org
  • Main outcomes: stakeholder integration, process innovation, community empowerment.

Constraints:

  • Communities have a wealth of knowledge, including memories and ideas that could help various stakeholders solve diverse urban problems. In the context of sustainability, this knowledge falls in the category of "community capital" which may be defined as t

Uses of this resource:

In the history of communities, there are challenges and related key interventions that work towards utilising available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. However, a lack of knowledge sharing that involves the community at the core as well as inaccessibility to the related data has made it difficult to keep track of most of these changes and adaptations. There is a need to develop tools that record these changes and adaptations and also allow for various stakeholders to tap into this intrinsic knowledge.

Additional information:

Who should be involved?

FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES: 
community development department; IT department; asset management department; planning and development department

LOCAL TASK FORCE: 
professional expert; researcher; community group; local or regional authority

SUITABLE FOR: 
(sub-) urban communities; urban region

MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE: 
expert knowledge; local knowledge; community trust; monetary investment; public institutional set-up; personnel time

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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