Participatory Mapping of Coastal Communities

Clients 

ZIP committees Sud-de-l’Estuaire, Saguenay-Charlevoix, Rive-Nord de l’Estuaire, Côte-Nord du Golfe 

Collaborators

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)

Novika Solutions

Living Lab en innovation ouverte (LLio)

Financing

Odyssée Saint-Laurent program from the Réseau Québec Maritime (RQM)

Description

This project enabled four ZIP (zone d’intervention prioritaire / priority intervention zone) committees to improve their practical and theoretical knowledge of coastal territories, with the help of the expertise from a trans-sectoral team of college and university researchers. In addition to promoting a participatory culture of acquiring quality geospatial and social data, the project’s innovative co-construction method with the ZIP Committees makes them more autonomous. This also has the advantage of diversifying the players responsible for acquiring fundamental data on the state of the St. Lawrence River system.

Field 

Environmental monitoring