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Mapping
Povery Environment Links
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IUCN
with its vision of a “just world that values and conserves
nature” believes that poverty-focussed conservation
has both ethical and practical perspectives that need
to be addressed. Ethically speaking, its unacceptable
to conduct conservation activities in areas of poverty
while neglecting the socio-economic and political needs
of the people who live there, and who depend on some
of the natural resources we are trying to conserve.
Practically speaking, conservation activities in such
areas are generally more effective if they are based
on socially responsible practices that can secure and
sustain wide public transport. Poverty-Environment mapping
offers a valuable tool to support poverty-focused conservation.
Maps of poverty and environmental conditions can pinpoint
opportunities for development and are useful to donors
and development agencies in allocating investment and
targeting activities. Several international intuitions
have been doing very important work on mapping poverty
related indicators and exploring their links with environmental
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| Map showing relationship between poverty
and Environment. Poverty is indicated by FAO's data
on stunting in children under five, and Environment
is represented by Conservation International's Biodiversity
Hotspots and Wilderness areas. |
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Tools
and Resources
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World
Conservation Congress, Poverty Mapping Workshop
Current
Poverty Environment Mapping Initiatives |
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Poverty
Monitoring and Indicators
News
And Events
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Prevalence
of stunting among children under five
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Source: FAO
The IUCN programme indicates the need for new approaches
to evaluate the highly complex relationship between
economic growth, poverty, inequities, and environmental
degradation.
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Poverty-conservation
mapping is a useful approach to explore linkages between
development (people) and conservation (nature). Although
poverty-environment mapping in biodiversity applications
has been limited, there are numerous potential applications
that are of use to IUCN and its members. Such applications
range from substantiating the key role of biological
resources in food security to improving geographic targeting
of pro-poor ecosystem management. Mapping applications
need to be used together, not in lieu of, other approaches
including multi-level socio-economic assessments, traditional
and community-based knowledge, community mapping, and
statistical analyses.
A number of international players active in addressing the poverty-environment links have undertaken work on GIS-based tools that would help understand the links and set priorities. This website is effort to communicate poverty environment mapping efforts of several institutes, in order to enhance and improve knowledge of the methodologies and indicators being employed.
Poverty Conservation Mapping
Applications
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Poverty Mapping Publication from IUCN
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