When writer Michelle Kovacevic and I met with CIFOR scientist Ashwin Ravikumar to discuss visualising the findings of a legal report on decentralisation in Peru, we discovered something interesting.
Buried inside the findings of the dry legal document was a much richer story about the very complexity that makes multilevel governance such a daunting topic for non-experts.
I decided to link a stylized biophysical representation of the landscape with a Sankey-like line diagram of the related governance space. Initially envisaged as a static infographic and poster, we decided to add the interactive functionality as a clarifying lens.
By collaborating directly with CIFOR scientists working in situ, we were able to combine data from a legal study on decentralization in Peru with interviews conducted for CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+. These data were used to visualise the role of various government agencies in land-use planning and governance for a single region of Peru.
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