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Academic and research capacity development in Earth observation for environmental management

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dc.contributor.author Cassells, Gemma
dc.contributor.author Woodhouse, Iain H.
dc.contributor.author Patenaude, Genevieve
dc.contributor.author Tembo, Mavuto
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-28T19:38:07Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-28T19:38:07Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.citation Cassells, G. Woodhouse, I. H., Patenaude, G. & Tembo, M. (2011). Academic and research capacity development in Earth observation for environmental management. Environmental research letters, 6, 1-8. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044002 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044002
dc.identifier.uri 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044002
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mzuni.ac.mw/handle/123456789/417
dc.description.abstract Sustainable environmental management is one of the key development goals of the 21st century. The importance of Earth observation (EO) for addressing current environmental problems is well recognized. Most developing countries are highly susceptible to environmental degradation; however, the capacity to monitor these changes is predominantly located in the developed world. Decades of aid and effort have been invested in capacity development (CD) with the goal of ensuring sustainable development. Academics, given their level of freedom and their wider interest in teaching and knowledge transfer, are ideally placed to act as catalyst for capacity building. In this letter, we make a novel investigation into the extent to which the EO academic research community is engaged in capacity development. Using the Web of Knowledge publication database (http://wok.mimas.ac.uk), we examined the geographical distribution of published EO related research (a) by country as object of research and (b) by authors’ country of affiliation. Our results show that, while a significant proportion of EO research (44%) has developing countries as their object of research, less than 3% of publications have authors working in, or affiliated to, a developing country (excluding China, India and Brazil, which not only are countries in transition, but also have well established EO capacity). These patterns appear consistent over the past 20 years. Despite the wide awareness of the importance of CD, we show that significant progress on this front is required. We therefore propose a number of recommendations and best practices to ease collaboration and open access. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher IOP PUBLISHING en_US
dc.subject capacity development en_US
dc.subject Earth observation en_US
dc.subject best practice en_US
dc.title Academic and research capacity development in Earth observation for environmental management en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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