Community Participation and Geographical Information Systems

✍ Scribed by William J. Craig, Trevor M. Harris, Daniel Weiner

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 410
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 actually taken control of the technology and really used it to their advantage. This is presented in the form of case studies and models such as Philadelphia's neighborhoods, the Atlanta Project, and neighborhood revitalization in Minneapolis, reflect on public participation in GIS concepts, best practices, constraints and opportunities.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 14
List of contributors......Page 16
Foreword......Page 20
Acknowledgements......Page 26
Introduction......Page 28
Community participation and geographic information systems......Page 30
Surveying the extent of PPGIS practice in the United States......Page 44
Models for making GIS available to community organizations: dimensions of difference and appropriateness......Page 64
PPGIS case studies......Page 80
A voice that could not be ignored: community GIS and gentrification battles in San Francisco......Page 82
Mapping Philadelphia's neighbourhoods......Page 92
The impacts of GIS use for neighbourhood revitalization in Minneapolis......Page 104
The Atlanta Project: reflections on PPGIS practice......Page 116
Web-based PPGIS in the United Kingdom......Page 128
GIS-enhanced land-use planning......Page 140
Portland Metro's dream for public involvement......Page 152
A community-based and collaborative GIS joint venture in rural Australia......Page 164
Geographic information systems in the environmental movement......Page 180
There must be a catch: participatory GIS in a Newfoundland fishing community......Page 200
Environmental NGOs and community access to technology as a force for change......Page 219
Mexican and Canadian case studies of community-based spatial information management for biodiversity conservation......Page 232
Promoting local community participation in forest management through a PPGIS application in Southern Ghana......Page 245
GIS for community forestry user groups in Nepal: putting people before the technology......Page 259
Implementing a community-integrated GIS: perspectives from South African fieldwork......Page 273
Information technologies, PPGIS, and advocacy: globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming......Page 286
Ensuring access to GIS for marginal societies......Page 297
The Cherokee Nation and tribal uses of GIS......Page 310
PPGIS futures......Page 322
Mutualism in strengthening GIS technologies and democratic principles: perspectives from a GIS software vendor......Page 324
Spatial multimedia representations to support community participation......Page 336
GIS and the artist: shaping the image of a neighbourhood through participatory environmental design......Page 347
A praxis of public participation GIS and visualization......Page 357
A model for evaluating public participation GIS......Page 373
Public participation, technological discourses and the scale of GIS......Page 384
Conclusion......Page 394
Index......Page 400