Participatory mapping

Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty

Pastoralists walk with their donkeys and goats.
25 April 2013
Blog entry
Climate change
Drylands and pastoralism
Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.

How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols

A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
2 October 2012
Blog entry
Biodiversity
Natural resource management
Participation
As delegates gather for the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity this photostory looks at why two communities in India and Borneo have developed community protocols.

What happens when slum dwellers put themselves on the map

Women from near Rangoon, Myanmar are seated around a map with paper houses and trees talking and laughing.
1 May 2012
Media release
Poverty
Urban environments
The new issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization – published today – reveals how organisations of the ‘illegal’ urban poor have made themselves matter to city governments by mapping and documenting their informal settlements and the people and businesses in them.
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