Spatial Knowledge: A Potential to Enhance Public Participation?

Gary Higgs to enhance public participation Integrating multi - criteria

Integrating multi-criteria techniques with geographical information systems in waste facility location to enhance public participation Despite recent UK Government commitments' to encourage public participation in environmental decision making, those exercises conducted to date have been largely confined to 'traditional' modes of participation such as the dissemination of information and in enc...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

Public Participation in Geocomputation to Support Spatial Decision-making

The extent to which computational modelling has influenced and been a part of decision-making in geography and urban planning has a long and distinguished history, as outlined by Geertman and Stillwell (2009) and Batty and Brail (2008) amongst others. With more recent advances in visualisation techniques and the ability of computers to manipulate, process and analyse increasingly complex and gr...

Public Participation: More than a Method?; Comment on “Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries”

While it is important to support the development of methods for public participation, we argue that this should not be at the expense of a broader consideration of the role of public participation. We suggest that a rights based approach provides a framework for developing more meaningful approaches that move beyond public participation as synonymous with consultation to value the contribution ...

public participation: methods matter; a response to boaz et al.