Maps are intuitive and powerful visualization tools for communicating stories, experiences, and knowledge of the place. Map-making can be both empowering and a tool of control, and the practice was ...

Communities can be encouraged to participate in countryside conservation through mapping, expressing what they feel to be important or distinct locally. Established UK community 'parish map' projects ...

The Kogi people have a unique spiritual and ecological connection with the forests they live in, but the forest is now under threat from gold mining, agriculture, and human development. The Amazon ...

This article critically and reflexively examines the process of applying participatory mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to investigate land use change and common property among ...

Participatory community mapping played a significant role in the planning and development of the Kayan Mentarang National Park. It was instrumental in proving that a community-based management of the ...

Under the shade of the towering trees of the Bosque Mbaracayú, the voices of the Aché, Avá Guaraní, and Pai Tavyterá peoples resonated in a new language: that of Participatory Environmental Mapping ...