Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series introduction......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction to geographic information systems and participatory geographic information science......Page 16
Macro-micro framework for participatory decision situations......Page 25
Macro-micro approach to decision situations......Page 26
Example of a macro-micro decision strategy......Page 28
Conceptual foundations;Enhanced Adaptive Structuration Theory 2......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 68
Methods and tools for participatory, spatial decision support......Page 77
Macro-micro decision strategy for methods and tools......Page 78
System requirement analysis for collaborative spatial decision support......Page 84
Decision support capabilities......Page 91
Personnel requirements......Page 107
Examples of GIS-supported collaborative decision making software packages......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 118
Social-behavioral research strategies for investigating the use of participatory geographic information systems......Page 125
Toward a methodological turn in participatory geographic information science......Page 126
Stages and domains of empirical, social-behavioral research about PGIS use......Page 128
Comparing components of a research strategy by phase......Page 145
Tactics for enhancing the potential quality of research findings......Page 168
Conclusion......Page 169
Collaborative spatial decision making in primary health care management: a task analysis-driven approach......Page 179
Health care funding allocation decisions: a task analysis......Page 181
Decision option generation......Page 183
Criteria identification......Page 184
Option evaluation......Page 191
Future potential for enhancing collaborative approach to funding primary health care services......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 208
Transportation improvement program decision making: using proposition analysis in a case study......Page 212
The significance of transportation improvement program decision making......Page 214
Construct analysis of the 1999 Puget Sound Regional Council TIP situation......Page 217
Proposition analysis of the 1999 Puget Sound Regional Council TIP decision situation......Page 219
Discussion of findings......Page 231
Conclusion......Page 238
Collaborative decision making about habitat restoration: a comparative assessment of social-behavioral data analysis strategies......Page 242
Posing research questions......Page 243
Research design......Page 245
Findings from two types of analyses of the same data......Page 252
Discussion of comparative assessment......Page 269
Conclusion......Page 271
Conclusions and prospects for future research......Page 276
Summary of conclusions for research findings about PGIS use......Page 277
Prospects for future research about PGIS use in relation to current work......Page 280
Index......Page 285