Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals : : Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship / / edited by Patricia Solís, Marcela Zeballos.

• Superior document: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
• HerausgeberIn: Solís, Patricia.; Zeballos, Marcela.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
• Language: English
• Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXIII, 382 p. 258 illus., 251 illus. in color.)

This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who create and use open mapping for development and humanitarian purposes. Their work leverages digital innovations - both geospatial platforms and communications technologies - to answer the call for leadership to address sustainability challenges. The book conveys a sense of robust knowledge emerging from formal studies or informal academic experiences - in the first-person voices of students and recent graduates who are at the forefront of creating a new map of the world. YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap as the foundational sharing mechanism for creating data together. Authors impart the way they are learning about themselves, about each other, about the world. They are developing technology skills, and simultaneously teaching the rest of the world about the potential contributions of a highly connected generation of emerging world leaders for the SDGs. The book is timely, in that it captures a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the YouthMappers movement’s ability to share emerging expertise, and one that coincides with a pivotal moment in the geopolitical history of planet earth whose inhabitants need to hear from them. Most volumes that cover the topic of sustainability in terms of youth development are written by non-youth authors. Moreover, most are written by non-majoritarian, entrenched academic scholars. This book instead puts forward the diverse voices of students and recent graduates in countries where YouthMappers works, all over the world. Authors cover topics that range from water, agriculture, food, to waste, education, gender, climate action and disasters from their own eyes in working with data, mapping, and humanitarian action, often working across national boundaries and across continents. To inspire readers with their insights, the chapters are mapped to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that connect a youth agenda to a global agenda. This is an open access book. .

Table of Contents

Chapter1. Introduction -- PartI. Mapping for the Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education, Gender, Water, and Energy -- Chapter2. Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South -- Chapter3. Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana -- Chapter4. Rural Household Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in Northern Ghana -- Chapter5. Where is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers map their communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter6. Cross-continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal -- Chapter7. Understanding YouthMappers Contributions to Building Resilient Communities in Asia -- Chapter8. Activating Education for Sustainable Development Goals through YouthMappers -- Chapter9. Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth Oriented Approach -- Chapter10. Youth Engagement and the Water-Energy-Land Nexus in Costa Rica -- Chapter11. Power Grid Mapping in West Africa -- Chapter12. Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria -- PartII. Youth Action on Work, Leadership, Innovation, Inequality, Cities, Production and Land -- Chapter13. Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership -- Chapter14. Drones For Good: Mapping Out the SDGs Using Innovative Technology in Malawi -- Chapter15. Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa -- Chapter16. Mapping Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities -- Chapter17. Visualizing YouthMappers Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America -- PartIII. Marking a Path to Goals on Sustainable Communities, Consumption, Climate, Oceans, Land, and Justice -- Chapter18. Youth Engagement and Participation in Mitigating Perennial Flooding in Kampala, Uganda using Open Geospatial Data -- Chapter19. Sustainable Mobility through Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Mapping of Cycling Infrastructure: SIGenBici in Medellín, Colombia -- Chapter20. Wastesites.io: Mapping Solid Waste to Meet Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter21. Mapping for Resilience: Extreme Heat Deaths and Mobile Homes in Arizona -- Chapter22. Mapping for Women’s Evacuation Plans during Climate-induced Disasters -- Chapter23. Sustainable Development in Oceania and the Role of Mapping for Women -- Chapter24. Sustainable Coastal Communities in the Anthropocene: Lessons from Crowd-Mapping Projects in Colombia -- Chapter25. Collaborative Cartography Making Riparian Communities Visible in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil -- Chapter26. Open Mapping with Official Cartographies in the Americas -- Chapter27. Cities of the Future Need to be Both Smart and Just: How We Think Open Mapping Can Help -- PartIV. Supporting YouthMappers to Advance the SDGs through Institutions and Partnerships -- Chapter28. Mentoring Experiences in YouthMappers Chapters -- Chapter29. The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive -- Chapter30. A Free and Open Map of the Entire World: Opportunities for YouthMappers within the Unusual Partnership Model of OpenStreetMap -- Chapter31. Youth and Humanitarian Action: Open Mapping Partnerships for Disaster Response and the SDGs -- PartV. The Paths Ahead -- Chapter32. Generation 2030: The Strategic Imperative of Youth Civic and Political Engagement -- Chapter33. Reflecting on the YouthMappers Movement.