<b>SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY TO UNDERSTAND PEASANT PERCEPTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL</b>

<b>Guide for Conducting Social Cartography Workshops: </b>This document describes icebreaker activities for participants, the rules of the meeting, and each step necessary to properly conduct the workshop, resulting in a cartography collaboratively created by the workshop participants.<b>Questions for social mapping:</b> The map-making process was shaped by a set of carefully crafted, adaptable guiding questions, developed by the research team based on field experience and the project's environmental objectives. These prompts enabled facilitators to engage flexibly with participants, encouraging open dialogue and allowing them to delve more deeply into new concerns or themes as they arose during the workshops.Social cartography produces, as its principal outcome, artistic maps created by peasant communities—including children, mothers, and fathers. These maps are of paramount importance because they vividly reflect participants’ perceptions of their territories and articulate the environmental challenges present in their localities. For this reason, the maps themselves must be included as a core documentary output of the research.<b>Figure </b><b>3</b>: Map of Juan Viejo village, workshop #1 for young people (men) between 11 – 15 years old.<b>Figure </b><b>4</b><b>:</b> Map of Quebradas village, workshop #1 for young people (men) between 11 – 13 years old.<b>Figure </b><b>5</b><b>:</b> Map of Costa Rica village. A) workshop #1 for young people (women) between 10 – 15 years old. B) workshop #1 youth (Men) between 11 – 15 years old. C) workshop #2 Women (Mothers and daughters). D) Workshop #2 Man (Fathers and Children).