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 institutions have been doing very important work on mapping poverty related indicators and exploring their links with environmental factors.
This publication aims to communicate and illustrate the poverty-environment mapping efforts of several of these organizations in order to enhance and improve knowledge of the methodologies and indicators being employed.