Geographic Information Science And Public Participation

Author : Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540754015

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Geographic Information Science and Public Participation by Laxmi Ramasubramanian Pdf

Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from public view. To a great extent, this goal has been achieved at least in the U.S. and Western Europe – data about a range of government initiatives and raw data about different aspects of spatial planning such as land use, community facilities, property ownership are available a mouse-click away. Now, that we, the public, have access to information, are we able to make better plans for the future of our cities and regions? Are we more inclusive in our planning efforts? Are we able to foster collaborative governance structures mediated by digital technologies? In the book, these issues will be discussed using a three-part structure. The first part of the book will be theoretical – it will review the literature in the field, establish a framework to organize the literature and to link three different subject areas (participation and community development, GIS and other related technologies, and planning processes). The second part of the book will be a series of success stories, case studies that review actual situations where participatory planning using GIS has enabled community wellbeing and empowerment. These case studies will vary in scale and focus on different planning issues (planning broadly defined). The final part of the book will step back to review alternative scenarios for the future, exploring where we are headed, as the technologies we are using to plan rapidly change.

Author : Daniel Sui,Sarah Elwood,Michael Goodchild
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400745872

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Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge by Daniel Sui,Sarah Elwood,Michael Goodchild Pdf

The phenomenon of volunteered geographic information is part of a profound transformation in how geographic data, information, and knowledge are produced and circulated. By situating volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the context of big-data deluge and the data-intensive inquiry, the 20 chapters in this book explore both the theories and applications of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production with three sections focusing on 1). VGI, Public Participation, and Citizen Science; 2). Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference; and 3). Emerging Applications and New Challenges. This book argues that future progress in VGI research depends in large part on building strong linkages with diverse geographic scholarship. Contributors of this volume situate VGI research in geography’s core concerns with space and place, and offer several ways of addressing persistent challenges of quality assurance in VGI. This book positions VGI as part of a shift toward hybrid epistemologies, and potentially a fourth paradigm of data-intensive inquiry across the sciences. It also considers the implications of VGI and the exaflood for further time-space compression and new forms, degrees of digital inequality, the renewed importance of geography, and the role of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production.

Author : William J. Craig,Trevor M. Harris,Daniel Weiner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203469484

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Community Participation and Geographical Information Systems by William J. Craig,Trevor M. Harris,Daniel Weiner Pdf

Have you ever considered how much effect information technology has on society throughout the world? Progress often places lower income and marginalized communities at a distinct disadvantage. Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems, however, offers a detailed look at numerous incidences around the world where communities have ac

Author : Janis L. Dickinson,Richard E. Bonney, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801464423

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Citizen Science by Janis L. Dickinson,Richard E. Bonney, Jr. Pdf

Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of scientific data on a vast geographic scale. In return, such projects aim to increase participants' connections to science, place, and nature, while supporting science literacy and environmental stewardship. In Citizen Science, experts from a variety of disciplines—including scientists and education specialists working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where many large citizen science programs use birds as proxies for biodiversity—share their experiences of creating and implementing successful citizen science projects, primarily those that use massive data sets gathered by citizen scientists to better understand the impact of environmental change. This first and foundational book for this developing field of inquiry addresses basic aspects of how to conduct citizen science projects, including goal-setting, program design, and evaluation, as well as the nuances of creating a robust digital infrastructure and recruiting a large participant base through communications and marketing. An overview of the types of research approaches and techniques demonstrates how to make use of large data sets arising from citizen science projects. A final section focuses on citizen science's impacts and its broad connections to understanding the human dimensions and educational aspects of participation. Citizen Science teaches teams of program developers and researchers how to cross the bridge from success at public engagement to using citizen science data to understand patterns and trends or to test hypotheses about how ecological processes respond to change at large geographic scales. Intended as a resource for a broad audience of experts and practitioners in natural sciences, information science, and social sciences, this book can be used to better understand how to improve existing programs, develop new ones, and make better use of the data resources that have accumulated from citizen science efforts. Its focus on harnessing the impact of "crowdsourcing" for scientific and educational endeavors is applicable to a wide range of fields, especially those that touch on the importance of massive collaboration aimed at understanding and conserving what we can of the natural world.

Author : Balram, Shivanand,Dragicevic, Suzana
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781591408475

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Collaborative Geographic Information Systems by Balram, Shivanand,Dragicevic, Suzana Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive treatment of collaborative GIS focusing on system design, group spatial planning and mapping; modeling, decision support, and visualization; and internet and wireless applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Barham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062830132

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Public Participation and Technological Decision Making by Mary Elizabeth Barham Pdf

Author : Artemis Skarlatidou,Muki Haklay
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781787356122

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Geographic Citizen Science Design by Artemis Skarlatidou,Muki Haklay Pdf

Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, ‘geographic citizen science’ is being approached from different angles. Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds. Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area.

Author : Nancy J. Obermeyer,Jeffrey K. Pinto
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781606238158

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Managing Geographic Information Systems by Nancy J. Obermeyer,Jeffrey K. Pinto Pdf

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this widely adopted text and practical reference addresses all aspects of developing and using geographic information systems (GIS) within an organization. Coverage includes the role of the GIS professional, how geographic information fits into broader management information systems, the use of GIS in strategic planning, and ways to navigate the organizational processes that support or inhibit the success of GIS implementation. All chapters retained from the prior edition have been thoroughly updated to reflect significant technological, empirical, and conceptual advances, as well as the changing contexts of GIS use. New chapters discuss organizational politics, metadata, legal issues, and GIS ethics.

Author : Mordechai (Muki) Haklay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470998243

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Interacting with Geospatial Technologies by Mordechai (Muki) Haklay Pdf

This book provides an introduction to HCI and usability aspects of Geographical Information Systems and Science. Its aim is to introduce the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); to discuss the special usability aspects of GIS which designers and developers need to take into account when developing such systems; and to offer a set of tried and tested frameworks, matrices and techniques that can be used within GIS projects. Geographical Information Systems and other applications of computerised mapping have gained popularity in recent years. Today, computer-based maps are common on the World Wide Web, mobile phones, satellite navigation systems and in various desktop computing packages. The more sophisticated packages that allow the manipulation and analysis of geographical information are used in location decisions of new businesses, for public service delivery for planning decisions by local and central government. Many more applications exist and some estimate the number of people across the world that are using GIS in their daily work at several millions. However, many applications of GIS are hard to learn and to master. This is understandable, as until quite recently, the main focus of software vendors in the area of GIS was on the delivery of basic functionality and development of methods to present and manipulate geographical information using the available computing resources. As a result, little attention was paid to usability aspects of GIS. This is evident in many public and private systems where the terminology, conceptual design and structure are all centred around the engineering of GIS and not on the needs and concepts that are familiar to the user. This book covers a range of topics from the cognitive models of geographical representation, to interface design. It will provide the reader with frameworks and techniques that can be used and description of case studies in which these techniques have been used for computer mapping application.

Author : Steven J. Steinberg,Sheila L. Steinberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483303468

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Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences by Steven J. Steinberg,Sheila L. Steinberg Pdf

Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place is the first book to take a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. In this text, authors Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg simplify GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for practitioners and students in the social sciences through the use of examples and actual program exercises so that they can become comfortable incorporating this research tool into their repertoire and scope of interest. The authors provide learning objectives for each chapter, chapter summaries, links to relevant Web sites, as well as suggestions for student research projects.

Author : David Kidner,Gary Higgs,Sean White
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203301074

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Socio-Economic Applications of Geographic Information Science by David Kidner,Gary Higgs,Sean White Pdf

To date, no one volume in the Innovations in GIS series has been given over to solely highlighting the use of up-to-date GIS-based techniques in a range of socio-economic applications. This monograph redresses this gap. The book begins with a short introductory chapter on the fundamental principles of GIS, followed by an examination of recen

Author : Harlan Onsrud,Werner Kuhn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780985244446

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Advancing Geographic Information Science: The Past and Next Twenty Years by Harlan Onsrud,Werner Kuhn Pdf

This book is the result of invited and competitive submissions to a 2015 academic institute on Advancing Geographic Information Science: The Past and Next Twenty Years. A core goal of the institute was to review the research challenges of the past twenty years and discuss emerging challenges of the next twenty.

Author : Sara Irina Fabrikant,Tumasch Reichenbacher,Marc van Kreveld,Christoph Schlieder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642152993

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Geographic Information Science by Sara Irina Fabrikant,Tumasch Reichenbacher,Marc van Kreveld,Christoph Schlieder Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2010, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. While traditional research topics such as spatio-temporal representations, spatial relations, interoperability, geographic databases, cartographic generalization, geographic visualization, navigation, spatial cognition, are alive and well in GIScience, research on how to handle massive and rapidly growing databases of dynamic space-time phenomena at fine-grained resolution for example, generated through sensor networks, has clearly emerged as a new and popular research frontier in the field.

Author : Timothy Nyerges,Helen Couclelis,Robert McMaster
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446209622

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The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society by Timothy Nyerges,Helen Couclelis,Robert McMaster Pdf

"The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process." - Paul Longley, University College London "This is truly a handbook - a book you will want to keep on hand for frequent reference and to which GIS professors should direct students entering our field... Selection of a few of the chapters for individual attention is difficult because each one contributes meaningfully to the overall message of this volume. An important collection of articles that will set the tone for the next two decades of discourse and research about GIS and society." - Journal of Geographical Analysis Over the past twenty years research on the evolving relationship between GIS and Society has been expanding into a wide variety of topical areas, becoming in the process an increasingly challenging and multifaceted endeavour. The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society is a retrospective and prospective overview of GIS and Society research that provides an expansive and critical assessment of work in that field. Emphasizing the theoretical, methodological and substantive diversity within GIS and Society research, the book highlights the distinctiveness and intellectual coherence of the subject as a field of study, while also examining its resonances with and between key themes, and among disciplines ranging from geography and computer science to sociology, anthropology, and the health and environmental sciences. Comprising 27 chapters, often with an international focus, the book is organized into six sections: Foundations of Geographic Information and Society Geographical Information and Modern Life Alternative Representations of Geographic Information and Society Organizations and Institutions Participation and Community Issues Value, Fairness, and Privacy Aimed at academics, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook will be the basic reference for any inquiry applying GIS to societal issues.

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466641709

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Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity by Silva, Carlos Nunes Pdf

The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens. Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity explores the nature of the new challenges confronting citizens and local governments in the field of urban governance. This comprehensive reference source explores the role that Web 2.0 technologies play in promoting citizen participation and empowerment in the city government and is intended for scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of urban studies, urban planning, political science, public administration, and more.