The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation

Sandbrook, Chris

doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0714-0

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“…com/environment/ng-interactive/2017/jul/13/the-defenders-tracker), the deployment of drones across large areas that are controlled by illegal actors is very dangerous, if not impossible without incurring unacceptable risks. In addition, many ethical concerns remain in relation to the utilization of drones in indigenous communities, irrespective of their "well-intended" uses (e.g., biodiversity conservation-see [48] for a detailed discussion about this point). A major related issue is the potential of conflicts within or between communities resulting from drone utilization [45].…”

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Grassroots Innovation Using Drones for Indigenous Mapping and Monitoring

Paneque-Gálvez

Vargas-Ramírez

Napoletano

et al. 2017

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Indigenous territories are facing increasing pressures from numerous legal and illegal activities that are pushing commodity frontiers within their limits, frequently causing severe environmental degradation and threatening indigenous territorial rights and livelihoods. In Central and South America, after nearly three decades of participatory mapping projects, interest is mounting among indigenous peoples in the use of new technologies for community mapping and monitoring as a means of defense against such threats. Since 2014, several innovative projects have been developed and implemented in the region to demonstrate and train indigenous communities in the use of small drones for territorial mapping and monitoring. In this paper, we report on five projects carried out in Peru, Guyana, and Panama. For each one we describe the context, main objectives, positive outcomes, challenges faced, and opportunities ahead. Preliminary results are promising and have gained the interest of many indigenous societies who envision this technology as a powerful tool to protect their territories and strengthen their claims regarding specific environmental liabilities and justice issues. Based on the results presented here and a review of previous similar studies, we offer a critical discussion of some of the main opportunities and challenges that we foresee regarding the use of small drones for indigenous territorial mapping and monitoring. In addition, we elaborate on why a careful, well thought-out, and progressive adoption of drones by indigenous peoples may trigger grassroots innovations in ways conducive to greater environmental justice and sustainability.

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Grassroots Innovation Using Drones for Indigenous Mapping and Monitoring

Paneque-Gálvez

Vargas-Ramírez

Napoletano

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“…Ele chama de "risco social" quando um drone, embora esteja cumprindo uma missão dentro da legalidade, possa comprometer a privacidade das pessoas. Acena para uma boa regulamentação, pois, mesmo que bem intencionado, o uso de drones pode implicar em prejuízos individuais e coletivos (SANDBROOK, 2015).…”

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Análise Jurídica E Ambiental Do Uso De Drones Em Área Urbana No Brasil

Spadotto

2016

Rev. Dir. da Cid.

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Resumo O objetivo desta pesquisa foi buscar uma antecipação jurídica para o uso de drone em área urbana no Brasil. A metodologia científica foi qualitativa, a coleta dos dados foi classificada como exploratória e o período experimental compreendeu 03/01/2015 a 20/01/2016. Os artigos científicos foram consultados a partir da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, do Google Acadêmico e do Scientific Electronic Library. A legislação atualizada foi consultada no site oficial do Governo Federal do Brasil. Foi possível inferir que o uso de drone em área urbana no Brasil é um evento ambiental relevante, e existem dúvidas na sua normatização. As maiores preocupações são privacidade e responsabilidades. Palavras-chave: Aeronave. RPA. Regulação. Direito. Cidade. Abstract This research's objective was to seek a legal anticipation for the use of drone in urban area in Brazil. The scientific methodology was qualitative, the data collect was classified as exploratory and the experimental period took place between January 3th 2015 and January 20th 2016. The scientific articles were consulted from the Coordination for the Qualification of Higher Level Staff in Brazil, the Google Scholar and the Scientific Electronic Library. The updated legislation was consulted on "Brazil's Federal Government Official Website". It was possible to infer that the use of drone in urban area in Brazil is an important environmental event, and there are doubts in its regulation. The major preoccupations are privacy and responsibilities.

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“…tourism, pollution) on abundance, particularly in coastal and shallow habitats, where visibility enables animal detection from the surface, as demonstrated for elasmobranch species in coral reef habitats [44]. Finally, although the flexibility of UASs will be able to revolutionize the way we address and solve ecological problems [9], we must consider government approval navigational stipulations and social implications that impose restrictions on the use of UASs before undertaking research projects involving the use of UASs [43][44][45].…”

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Environmental Monitoring: A Review with Applications in Coastal Habitats

Ventura¹,

Bonifazi²,

Gravina³

et al. 2017

Aerial Robots - Aerodynamics, Control and Applications

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Nowadays the proliferation of small unmanned aerial systems or vehicles (UAS/ Vs), formerly known as drones, coupled with an increasing interest in tools for environmental monitoring, have led to an exponential use of these unmanned aerial platforms for many applications in the most diverse fields of science. In particular, ecologists require data collected at appropriate spatial and temporal resolutions to describe ecological processes. For these reasons, we are witnessing the proliferation of UAV-based remote sensing techniques because they provide new perspectives on ecological phenomena that would otherwise be difficult to study. Therefore, we propose a brief review regarding the emerging applications of low-cost aerial platforms in the field of environmental sciences such as assessment of vegetation dynamics and forests biodiversity, wildlife research and management, map changes in freshwater marshes, river habitat mapping, and conservation and monitoring programs. In addition, we describe two applications of habitat mapping from UAS-based imagery, along the Central Mediterranean coasts, as study cases: (1) The upper limit of a Posidonia oceanica meadow was mapped to detect impacted areas, (2) high-resolution orthomosaic was used for supporting underwater visual census data in order to visualize juvenile fish densities and microhabitat use in four shallow coastal nurseries.

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The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation

Cited by 187 publications

References 57 publications

Grassroots Innovation Using Drones for Indigenous Mapping and Monitoring

Grassroots Innovation Using Drones for Indigenous Mapping and Monitoring

Análise Jurídica E Ambiental Do Uso De Drones Em Área Urbana No Brasil

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Environmental Monitoring: A Review with Applications in Coastal Habitats

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