The COBRA Project (www.projectcobra.org) is a multidisciplinary project focused on promoting community-owned solutions to emerging challenges related to climate change, biodiversity conservation and forest management. We are working with indigenous groups in South America, using a range of visual methods including participatory video and participatory photography.
The COBRA Project has a series of new multimedia resources and publications including two-page briefings, films, photostories and reports which we would like to share with you. These can be found through our Media Gate: http://projectcobra.org/category/media/
We draw your attention to a major report on the use of scenarios in a cross-scalar analysis to help build shared understandings of potential futures. Scenarios can be used to compare the current state of a system with a number of prospective futures and provide a way for communities and other stakeholders to see how different interventions or activities may impact on people and the
environment. Within the COBRA project, we have used scenarios to compare a wide range of international, national and local futures with a range of existing and emerging community-owned solutions.
You can find the report here: http://projectcobra.org/future-scenarios/
We also draw your attention to a new publication in the peer-reviewed open access journal EchoGeo on the use of the System Viability approach for promoting community resilience and sustainability.
You can find the article here: http://echogeo.revues.org/13411
