Participatory GIS — a people's GIS?
By Christine E. Dunn. 2007
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Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper reviews PGIS in the context of the `democratization of GIS'. It explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge, scale and scaling up, web-based approaches and some potential future technical and academic directions.
Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Signal Processing
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Citations in the corpus
- Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice (2012, background): “These practices diverge not just from conventional state-based data creation efforts but also from many community-based mapping and participatory GIS initiatives that have tended to emphasize self-representation, empowerment, and collective action (Sieber 2006; Dunn 2007).”
- Geo-information tools for participatory spatial planning: Fulfilling the criteria for ‘good’ governance? (2012, unknown): “Dunn). Geoforum 43 (2012) 81–94”
- Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS (2008, background): “…may include and exclude, focusing upon how these forces stem from social and political processes in which they are embedded and from the forms of spatial knowledge and reasoning that GIS software and data structures can handle (Obermeyer 1998; Craig et al. 2002; Sieber 2006; Dunn 2007).”
- The relationship between social values for ecosystem services and global land cover: An empirical analysis (2013, background): “Since the 1990s, the range of PPGIS applications has been extensive from community and neighborhood planning to environmental and natural resource management (see Dunn, 2007; Landscape Values & PPGIS Institute, (2012); Sieber, 2006).”