Abstract
With training, GIS can be used by all sectors of Latin American society and is the mapping tool of choice for institutions ranging from the Inter-American Development Bank to remote communities in the Amazon rain forest. Geographic information systems are thus a tool of the powerful and the marginalized and the official and the unofficial. [...] In this chapter, we see how GIS maps can improve our ability to analyze conflict over resources and allow additional participation in the process of mapping, but we also confront some of the many political and technical challenges that must be overcome to construct a participatory GIS map.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2011
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Copyright © 2011 University of Chicago Press. This chapter first appeared in Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader.
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Recommended Citation
Salisbury, David S. "GIS Maps and the Amazon Borderlands." In Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, 278-82. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.