Knowledge Interaction in Map Making: A Case Study of Community Forestry in the Philippines

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  • 地図をめぐる知の交流――フィリピンの参加型森林政策を事例として――
  • チズ オ メグル チ ノ コウリュウ : フィリピン ノ サンカガタ シンリン セイサク オ ジレイ ト シテ

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<p>This paper focuses on a case study of map making at a community forestry site in the Philippines in order to explore the relationship between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge for successful forest conservation. These two types of knowledge have different features and have an affect at national and local levels of society. Explicit knowledge, such as that gained from science, can make things formalistic, while tacit knowledge includes experience, which varies according to place or situation. Previous studies on community forestry have demonstrated that national governments are able to control local contexts by using explicit knowledge i. e. scientific natural resource management. Although local people decide upon their actions based on the surrounding situation, local contexts are often ignored or incapacitated by scientific forest policy. Community forestry studies have paid little attention to the interactive relations between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge at the local level. Under decentralization, frontline foresters have to consider local contexts when carrying out their tasks. In this case study, frontline foresters and local people use both explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge through the process of making maps for forest user group members. More attention should be paid to the potential of the convergence of different types of knowledge to produce influential adaptations in state-society relations.</p>

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