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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The demarcation of a 1-km buffer zone around the protected forests in Kerala on the direction of the Supreme Court has raised serious concerns in society. While the creation and maintenance of buffer ...

When Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim was growing up in the 1980s, along the shores of Lake Chad, she was dazzled by her elder’s knowledge of the land. “Reading the clouds, listening to the wind, they could ...

Indonesia’s highly-anticipated One Map Policy is inching toward completion with most datasets successfully compiled by the government, but observers are wary of the project’s lack of transparency and ...

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This report provides the livelihoods mapping analysis of persons with disabilities at two locations in Uganda. The research explores different assets/capital endowments (human, social, physical, ...