Here we share some recent literature by commission members, as well as other literature relevant to the commission.

FOUNDATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Mapping For a Sustainable World (2020) Menno-Jan Kraak, Robert E. Roth, Britta Ricker, Ayako Kagawa and Guillaume Le Sourd. Open access textbook published by the United Nations.

Full Special Issue Cartography for Sustainable Development of the International Journal of Cartography: Volume 11, Issue 3 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tica20/11/3

Roth, R. E., Iverson, A., Kagawa, A., Sourd, G. L., Ricker, B., Andersen, T., … Kraak, M. J. (2025). Making and remaking Mapping for a Sustainable World: a retrospective and prospective analysis as a case study in Processual Cartography. International Journal of Cartography, 11(3), 388–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2025.2458895

Atlas of Sustainability Created in one week by Masters of Cartography Students

Fish, C. S., & Fish, C. S. (2021). Elements of Vivid Cartography Elements of Vivid Cartography. The Cartographic Journal, 0(0), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00087041.2020.1800160

Fish, C. S. (2020). Cartographic content analysis of compelling climate change communication. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 47(6), 492–507. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2020.1774421