Geo-questionnaires in urban planning: recruitment methods, participant engagement, and data quality

Czepkiewicz, Michał; Jankowski, Piotr; Młodkowski, Marek

doi:10.1080/15230406.2016.1230520

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“…After deducting incomplete responses, the response rate was 16.82% with 841 responses out of the 5000 individuals invited (see [15] for more details). The geographic distribution of the study participants' residences was similar to that of the target population: Pearson's r calculated in a 1 km hexagon grid equals 0.81, which was deemed satisfactory and close to that in other related studies [57]. The sample over-represented people with higher education (70% compared to 46% in the HMA population aged 25 to 40) and women (58% to 50%).…”

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The Geographical Distribution and Correlates of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in an Urban Region

2019

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A lot of emphasis has been put on the densification of urban form to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. However, many recent studies have found that central urban dwellers, even though their carbon footprints of daily transportation may be lower, might be responsible for higher total emissions than those that reside in suburban areas. Similarly, as with the urban form, higher environmental concern is often considered as an indicator of lower emissions, but several studies have found that pro-environmental attitude (PEA) does not always correlate with less energy intensive behavior. This study analyzes how urban zones, PEA, and several sociodemographic variables are associated with annual travel emissions and pro-environmental behaviors (PEB), using a dataset collected with a map-based online survey (softGIS) survey, contributed by 841 participants from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA), Finland. Although PEA can affect PEBs related to household energy consumption (β = 0.282, p < 0.001), clothing (β = 0.447, p < 0.001) and produce purchases (β = 0.449, p < 0.0001), their relationship with emissions from local (β = −0.067), national (β = −0.019) and international (β = −0.016) travel was not significant. Clusters of low emissions from local travel and high international travel emissions were found in pedestrian-oriented urban zones and residents of car-oriented zones were more likely to conserve household energy (β = 0.102, p < 0.05). These results might help broaden the current perspective of city planners, as well as identify opportunities for more effective mitigation policies.

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The Geographical Distribution and Correlates of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in an Urban Region

2019

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“…Other researchers have called for the concurrent use of probability and voluntary sampling to study the effect of sampling methods (brown, Reed 2009) on the quality of public participation (brown et al 2014a). Another important issue for geo-questionnaire data collection is the quality of data required to effectively inform planning (brown, , Czepkiewicz et al 2016b).…”

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“…In cases of attributing values and desirable land uses to specific locations, the distance to the domicile might influence the assigned values/preferred land use categories due to spatial discounting: place value and attachment develop with proximity and familiarity, and people prefer to have positive aspects close to their homes while keeping the negative aspects away (brown et al 2002, Pocewicz, Nielsen-Pincus 2013, brown, Kyttä 2014. Spatial representativeness may be assessed by comparing the distribution of respondents with the pattern of plan area residents aggregated to spatial units (Czepkiewicz et al 2016b).…”

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Geo-Questionnaire: A Spatially Explicit Method for Eliciting Public Preferences, Behavioural Patterns, and Local Knowledge – An Overview

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Zwoliński

2018

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Geo-questionnaires have been used in a variety of domains to collect public preferences, behavioural patterns, and spatially-explicit local knowledge, for academic research and environmental and urban planning. This paper provides an overview of the method focusing on the methodical characteristics of geo-questionnaires including software functions, types of collected data, and techniques of data analysis. The paper also discusses broader methodical issues related to the practice of deploying geo-questionnaires such as respondent selection and recruitment, representativeness, and data quality. The discussion of methodical issues is followed by an overview of the recent examples of geo-questionnaire applications in Poland, and the discussion of socio-technical aspects of geo-questionnaire use in spatial planning.

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“…Online tools have added value in how they facilitate the dissemination of information, public involvement, and the accumulation of local knowledge [60], though one negative is social injustice, as not all groups of the population are able to use these instruments equally well [60]. For example, the use of social networks brings the issue closer to younger inhabitants, whereas paper questionnaires ensure a better spread of individual age groups in the surveys, but do not address the question of the respondents' different levels of education [66].…”

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Land-Use Planning and the Public: Is There an Optimal Degree of Civic Participation?

Kopáček

2021

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Civic participation has an irreplaceable role in the land-use planning process because it contributes a practical perspective to expert knowledge. This article discusses whether there is actually a level of civic participation that can be considered optimal, which would allow experts to effectively obtain information from everyday users of the territory, who have the best practical knowledge of it; experts may also gain sufficient feedback on intended developments, based on knowledge about civic participation from representatives of individual municipalities. The article also proposes measures that can promote an optimal degree of participation in the land-use planning process. The fieldwork was conducted in the form of semi-structured interviews with the mayors of municipalities with a population of up to 2000 inhabitants in selected districts of the Ústí Region (Czech Republic). The results suggest that the optimal degree of civic participation in land-use planning should have a representative extent, so it should not merely be a matter of individuals, but also one of groups of dozens of people, and such groups should encompass a balanced variety of characteristics; an optimal level of civic participation should also provide the maximum number of relevant impulses. Measures that may secure and foster an optimal degree of civic participation in land-use planning include (1) striving to avoid preferring purely voluntary participation; (2) simultaneously utilizing various tools to engage inhabitants; (3) educating inhabitants on a regular basis; and (4) consistently communicating and providing feedback, while also searching for informal means of communication and discussion.

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Geo-questionnaires in urban planning: recruitment methods, participant engagement, and data quality

Cited by 47 publications

References 32 publications

The Geographical Distribution and Correlates of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in an Urban Region

The Geographical Distribution and Correlates of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in an Urban Region

Geo-Questionnaire: A Spatially Explicit Method for Eliciting Public Preferences, Behavioural Patterns, and Local Knowledge – An Overview

Land-Use Planning and the Public: Is There an Optimal Degree of Civic Participation?

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