Bottom-Up GIS

Talen, Emily

doi:10.1080/01944360008976107

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“…Public participation GIS (PPGIS) is a method used to represent public knowledge, place meanings, or values spatially by including members of the public in the mapping process (Talen 2000, Brown 2004). We merged participatory, qualitative approaches to SIA (Becker et al 2003, Harris et al 2012) and PPGIS methods (Gunderson andWatson 2007, Lowery andMorse 2013) because there is a need and legal mandate to involve the public in planning processes (Brown andWeber 2011, Brown andDonovan 2013), and because human-ecosystem interactions and planning are inherently geospatial.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

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A social-ecological impact assessment for public lands management: application of a conceptual and methodological framework

Brymer¹,

Holbrook²,

Niemeyer³

et al. 2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. According to the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), federal action to manipulate habitat for species conservation requires an environmental impact statement, which should integrate natural, physical, economic, and social sciences in planning and decision making. Nonetheless, most impact assessments focus disproportionately on physical or ecological impacts rather than integrating ecological and socioeconomic components. We developed a participatory social-ecological impact assessment (SEIA) that addresses the requirements of NEPA and integrates social and ecological concepts for impact assessments. We cooperated with the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho, USA on a project designed to restore habitat for the Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). We employed questionnaires, workshop dialogue, and participatory mapping exercises with stakeholders to identify potential environmental changes and subsequent impacts expected to result from the removal of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis). Via questionnaires and workshop dialogue, stakeholders identified 46 environmental changes and associated positive or negative impacts to people and communities in Owyhee County, Idaho. Results of the participatory mapping exercises showed that the spatial distribution of social, economic, and ecological values throughout Owyhee County are highly associated with the two main watersheds, wilderness areas, and the historic town of Silver City. Altogether, the SEIA process revealed that perceptions of project scale varied among participants, highlighting the need for specificity about spatial and temporal scales. Overall, the SEIA generated substantial information concerning potential impacts associated with habitat treatments for Greater Sage-Grouse. The SEIA is transferable to other land management and conservation contexts because it supports holistic understanding and framing of connections between humans and ecosystems. By applying this SEIA framework, land managers and affected people have an opportunity to fulfill NEPA requirements and develop more comprehensive management plans that better reflect the linkages of social-ecological systems.

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

A social-ecological impact assessment for public lands management: application of a conceptual and methodological framework

Brymer¹,

Holbrook²,

Niemeyer³

et al. 2016

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“…De Man and van den Toorn observe that cultural factors such as those resulting from inequality in power and wealth, attitudes toward uncertainty, gender roles, and relationship between individuals and groups (i.e., individualism versus collectivism) affect access to information as well as participatory modes in PPGIS Dwelling on the significance of local political context, Ghose and Elwood show that political relationships among multiple government and nongovernmental agencies at different geographic scales play an interconnected role in PPGIS. With respect to the characteristics of the people who participate, a persistent debate regarding participation in general and PPGIS in particular is the delineation of the boundaries (e.g., geographic or issue based) of who should participate and who constitutes the public [17]. GIS may not easily lend itself to full participation by the public because it requires the intervention of an expert with technological skills to access and manipulate data, an aspect that is important for the next theme, too.…”

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GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

Liu¹,

Liu²

2015

TOCSJ

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A number of approaches for integrating GIS and qualitative research have emerged in recent years. Despite significant growth in public participation GIS (PPGIS) literature since the 1990s, little engagement by e-government scholars is evident in the extensive scholarly PPGIS debates. To fill this void, recent trends in PPGIS adoption by local governments are analyzed. Three waves of GIS are identified: desktop GIS, web GIS, and the Geospatial Web 2.0 platform. Such technological advancements have progressively eased GIS accessibility from expert users to ordinary citizens, accompanied by considerable growth in adopting PPGIS for traffic and transit, volunteered geographic information, and customer relationship management. However, limited use of PPGIS for higher levels of participation such as decision making is found. Barriers to PPGIS adoption for decision making seem less technological and more institutional.

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“…The inclusion and exclusion of people goes to the core of the definition of the public (Elwood, 2006;McCall, 2003;Schlossberg & Shuford, 2005;Talen, 2000). Such delineation of the boundaries at the local governments is typically defined by the jurisdictional boundary.…”

Section: Significance Of Contextmentioning

confidence: 98%

Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Survey

Ganapati

2010

Integrated Series in Information Systems

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Bottom-Up GIS

Cited by 197 publications

References 24 publications

A social-ecological impact assessment for public lands management: application of a conceptual and methodological framework

A social-ecological impact assessment for public lands management: application of a conceptual and methodological framework

GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Survey

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