Governing Landscapes for Ecosystem Services: A Participatory Land-Use Scenario Development in the Northwest Montane Region of Vietnam

Evaluating the role of spatial landscape literacy in public participation processes and opinions on environmental issues and ecosystem services

“…That said, this is one of the few studies that integrates technology and a large sample size to better understand the role of spatial literacy in public participation processes and opinions regarding environmental perceptions in a Global South context (Aggrey et al 2021;Do et al 2020;Hui and Wescoat 2019). The increasing use and dependence of cartographic information, on-line technologies, and social media now presents an opportunity for improved democratization, social learning, and access to the environmental decision-making process.…”

“…A similar body of literature has begun using PPGIS methods to measure stakeholder's needs or demands for different ecosystem services from landscapes (e.g., Palomo et al 2014;Burkhardt et al 2012;Darvill and Lindo 2015;Damastuti and de Groot 2019). These methods generally integrate GIS technology into decision-making processes as well as to study citizen's preferences and demand for nature's ecosystem services and benefits (Brown et al 2012;Do et al 2020). Some studies have documented that such a participatory approach, grounded in personal experience, is particularly appropriate for the assessment of provision and cultural ecosystem services (Fagerholm and Käyhkö 2009;Fagerholm et al 2019a).…”

“…Other PPGIS-related literature has also noted participant's inability to precisely locate and map landscapes and points of interest related to ecosystem processes (Escobedo et al 2020). Such studies regarding people's understanding of landscapes and ecosystem processes also assume a priori that participants have sufficient cartographic or geographic information and knowledge, to make them spatially literate (Aggrey et al 2021;Do et al 2020;García-Díez et al 2020;Reilly et al 2018). Outside the environmental and resource management literature, other disciplines such as psychology, neurosciences, geography (including cartography), and computer science have also studied the role of spatial cognition and map reading in people's acquisition of spatial knowledge and their ability to navigate or place and locate themselves in space, encode the environment, and their literacy using cartographic images (Golledge 1993;Ramadier and Bronner 2006;Tu Huynh and Doherty 2007).…”

Spatial Tools for Integrated and Inclusive Landscape Governance: Toward a New Research Agenda

“…By broadening the scope of actors, including the 'bad guys', it is possible to expand the knowledge inputs, be more representative (democratic), and reduce 'parochialism' or the 'bubble effect' (McCall 2021). Moreover, broadening the application, especially to local administrative authorities, allows an exploration of how participatory spatial tools can be integrated into formal planning processes (Do et al 2021;Best et al 2021).…”

“…Some of these articles are referred to in this paper(Aggrey et al 2021;Asubonteng et al 2021;Best et al 2021;Djenontin et al 2021;Do et al 2021;Shantiko et al 2021; Somuah et al 2021).…”