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Explore the CNNCTS Living Labs with our new StoryMap!

CNNCTS provides opportunities to put knowledge into practice with place-based learning opportunities for university students and community members through our Stewardship Living Labs program. The new story map shows the different sites, grouped by academic institution, where the Living Labs are taking place and also provides more information about these important sites.


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About the Living Labs


The Stewardship Living Labs—”Living Labs” for short— are located on 10 research reserves managed by partners at San Diego State University (SDSU), the University of California at Riverside (UCR), and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). 


Programming at the Living Labs is inspired by the Learning Landscapes Program, established by our partners at the Native American Land Conservancy  (NALC), which centers on community and intergenerational learning. 


The Living Labs provide a place to strengthen relationships between academic and Indigenous communities by creating a space for equal valuation of knowledge and practices and allowing students to connect and learn from practitioners. Knowledge exchanges will prioritize cultural values and practices with acknowledgement of both contemporary and Indigenous practices for land and resource management. 


These labs offer diversity in their geographic, ecological, and cultural dimensions to meet the unique needs of our different partner communities in stewarding lands threatened by increasing temperatures, droughts and flooding, invasive species, and shifting fire regimes. Each site features different stewardship activities that create opportunities for students, faculty, and community members to come together to experiment with stewardship and community building practices as well as knowledge sharing mechanisms that meet community climate action needs.



StoryMaps are dynamic storytelling tools from ESRI ArcGIS. The StoryMap works best on  a desktop but can also be explored from your mobile device.


 

Stewardship Living Labs is part of our “Translate knowledges to practice” focus area. Learn more about the Collaborative for Native Nations for Climate Transformation and Stewardship (CNNCTS) at cnncts.org.

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