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Commission News: Autumn 2024

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Welcome to the first newsletter Commission for Cartography and Sustainable Development of the International Cartographic Association where we invite ideas for action, upcoming events, and report of recent activities:

Ideas for action

  • On our Commission Website https://carto-sd.icaci.org/ we would like to add a place for members. If you would like your name to be added to the website as a member of this commission, please add your name to the form found here – there is also a place for you to add ideas for commission on this form too. https://forms.gle/CscjKxF5apfwuG698 .

Upcoming Events

AsiaCarto 2024

  • The first AsiaCarto will be held in Hong Kong 8-10 December https://asiacarto.org/2024/ 
  • Representing our Commission – PhD Candidate Cara Flores will be presenting work about Participatory Mapping for Sustainable Development titled “Weaving participatory and artistic approaches into generating spatial data in mapping for a sustainable world”.
  • If you will be at AsiaCarto please let me (Britta) know so we can advertise your participation!

International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2025

  • The next International Cartographic Conference (ICC) will be held in Vancouver in August 2025 https://icc2025.com/ The theme is Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability
  • Call for papers and abstracts for the Vancouver ICC is out! Read it in English or in French:
  • Our commission is planning to do a pre-conference workshop in Vancouver, stay tuned!
  • Do you have an idea for a commission-sponsored workshop? Please share your ideas here https://forms.gle/qwMxdYKeVrm7oqyc7

Cartography and Sustainable Development Workshop in Aruba 2026

Recent Activities

EuroCarto – Vienna September 2024

  • Together with with the ICA Commission on Integrated Geospatial Information for Cartography and the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping Anja Hopfstock Markus Jobst Kathryn Arnold David Forest and Lukasz Halik we co-hosted the Workshop “Building the Road to AI; How cartography links data integration, meaning and geospatial knowledge transmission” This workshop fostered rich discussion about experiences trying to reach the goal of mapping for a sustainable world. Speakers included:
  • James Norris presented and explained the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework and his perspective about how it can be useful.
  • Gwendolin Seidner shared a presentation titled “Solving the Puzzle: A Country-level Action Plan for Germany – How geospatial supports the UN-IGIF” with examples that countries can learn from while trying to implement geospatial technology for sustainable development. There were some entertaining and exciting examples of using old maps to answer contemporary spatial questions.
  • David Forest and Lukasz Halik talked about investigating openly available data to support SDG mapping and topographic mapping which fostered great discussions among the participants about worldwide data availability.
  • Mark Jobst led a tutorial about how to make choropleth SDG maps using an online tool.
  • I, Britta, presented about what I learned about writing the Book Mapping for a Sustainable World and my current research initiatives – some of the ideas are shared on the Geoholics Podcast.
  • During the main conference there was a session on Sustainability and Cartography – see the full program here https://eurocarto2024.org/program/ chaired by Florian Ledermann which included the following presentations:
    • Luca Gaia, Lorenz Hurni, Andreas Neumann, René Sieber: “Cartographic visualization of the effects of climate change: a practical application for the Atlas of Switzerland”
    • Britta Ricker, Maarten Eppinga, Sharona Jurgens, Eric Mijts: “Mapping for Sustainable Development: Comparing different techniques for mapping and monitoring mangroves in Aruba”
    • Yi Zhen Chew, Ekaterina Chuprikova, Holger Kumke, Abraham Mejia-Aguilar, Liqiu Meng, Nikolaus Obojes: “From Leaves to Forests: How to Map Stress in Plants due to Climate Change”
    • Ayako Kagawa: “What’s geographical names got to do with Climate Action?”
    • Zdeněk Stachoň, Petr Kubíček, Lukáš Dolák, Radim Štampach, Jan Řehoř: “Drought, Heatwaves, and Fire Weather and its Cartographic Visualization”

NACIS Tacoma October 2024

  • Commission vice-chair Carolyn Fish attended the North American Cartographic Information Society conference in Tacoma this month. There were great presentations and discussion all around. See the full program here: https://nacis2024.sched.com/
  • Next year’s NACIS will be in Louisville, KY in October 2025 and typically abstracts are due in May.

Intergeo and the German Cartography Conference – Deutsche Kartographie Kongress (DKK) 

Britta presented commission work related to mapping SDG global to local in the session Kartographie für eine smarte Welt on Sept 25, 2024. It was great to learn about the research and ideas happening in Germany at the cartography conference. At the Intergeo ExpoCenter, it was completely inspiring to see and touch all of the latest mapping hardware and software.

Thank you for reading. Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Call for Papers: International Journal of Cartography

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Special Issue – Cartography and Sustainable Development

Guest Editors: Britta Ricker and Carolyn Fish

The International Cartographic Association’s Commission of Cartography and Sustainable Development invites submissions for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Cartography, published by Taylor and Francis. (http://www.tandfonline.com/tica)

The aim of the Journal is to provide a vehicle for publishing key documents from all areas of the ICA research, teaching and professional community’s expertise, and in so doing, to define contemporary cartography and GIScience. The Journal covers a number of areas of endeavour in cartography and GIScience, both traditional and transitional.

Access to resources necessary to sustain life are not accessible to all. The reasons for this are complex and interwoven. Sustainable Development is the process of meeting the necessities of the present without compromising the opportunities of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable Development is an inherently interdisciplinary challenge and addresses issues of environmental, social, and economic justice and equity. It requires changes to current understandings of development to improve human wellbeing through environmental preservation, and social equity, and economic opportunity and development. Cartography can help reduce complexity by illustrating both current realities and future possibilities to reveal spatial patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed. Maps and cartographic visualizations can aid in identifying where to employ local solutions to global challenges, indicating where opportunities could be had, illuminating injustice, and guiding informed decision-making processes more broadly. Well-designed maps employing effective cartographic principles can illuminate strategies to reach a sustainable world.

We invite paper submissions that provide pragmatic, conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical basis for supporting and advancing Sustainable Development initiatives through cartography and/or geovisualization. We welcome a wide range of topical issues that address sustainable development including (but are not limited to):

  • The use or modification of maps to advance ecological, social, or economic opportunity, development, and/or justice
  • How cartography is an effective tool to illuminate gaps, where sustainable development initiatives are needed
  • How visualizations can be employed to reify or evaluate challenges associated with Sustainable Development
  • Identifying solutions or challenges faced at different (spatial and administrative) scales (or levels of geography and government) in terms of specific variables related to Sustainable Development
  • Addressing Sustainable Development as it related to cartographic design, production and data management
  • Communicating missing data that could advance Sustainable Development action
  • Exploring issues of scale (either geographic or temporal) in Sustainable Development and cartography
  • Investigating the application of participatory approaches to Sustainable Development and cartography
  • Mapping the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Timeline:

September 8th, 2023 – Authors Submit Title and short abstract (100-200 words max) (send these expressions of interest to Guest Editors Britta Ricker b.a.ricker@uu.nl and Carolyn Fish cfish11@uoregon.edu) 

September 15th, 2023 – Notification of selected submissions an invitation to submit a full paper

December 15th, 2023 – Full papers due

All submissions and reviewing for papers submitted to the International Journal of Cartography are handled electronically through the Taylor and Francis on-line facility.  This manages the paper-handling process – from submission, to review and revision to publishing.  All papers are double-blind reviewed.

As soon as papers are accepted, typeset, and approved by the author they are published on-line (and article DOI provided).  This speeds-up the time taken from paper acceptance to publishing.  Once all papers for a particular issue are in-hand the print version of the Journal is published. All papers are published with abstracts in English and French.  Additionally, at the authors’ request, and if the author provides the abstract in their mother tongue, it is possible to include a third abstract, in the Authors’ mother tongue.

Contact:

Please contact Britta Ricker b.a.ricker@uu.nl and/or Carolyn Fish cfish11@uoregon.edu  with any questions and with submissions to the Special Issue