Citizens are demanding greater transparency and accountability from their governments, and seek to participate in shaping the policies that affect their lives. The diffusion of the Internet has raised expectations that electronic tools may increase citizen participation in government decision-making and stop the decline of trust in political institutions. This paper brings together two relevant...

Global interest in participatory mapping described as public participation GIS (PPGIS), participatory GIS (PGIS), and volunteered geographic information (VGI) continues to grow, but systematic study of spatial data quality and sampling effects is limited. This article provides a review and meta-analysis of Internetbased PPGIS studies conducted during the period 2006–2015 (n526) to answer the fo...

Right to the city is composed of appropriation and participation in urban affairs. Appropriation is realized through movement in the city, presence in it, comfort feeling, and having proper spaces. While urban participation is possible through being involved in urban policy-making, decision-making for physical and spatial issues, urban economy, ownership and control of urban...

To resolve tensions among competing sources of evidence and public expectations, health-care managers and policy makers are turning more than ever to involve the public in a wide range of decisions. Yet efforts to use research evidence to inform public involvement decisions are hampered by an absence of rigorous public participation evaluation research. In particular, greater rigour in explorin...

Considerable effort has been directed into separate but related research foci—the study of ecosystem services and participatory mapping methods. The two research foci intersect in the mapping of placebased values, an operational form of social values for ecosystem services that uses public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods. The social valuation of ecosystem services through participatory mappin...

A Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was developed, applied and evaluated to determine its potential to assist village communities in the management of their communal forest resources in the mountains of Nepal. It was successful in involving the community in determining their information needs, collecting data, obtaining resource information and forest management decision making. During the evalu...

background: as key determinants of many favorable health and quality of life outcomes, it is important to identify factors associated with mobility and social participation. although several investigations have been carried out on mobility, social participation and neighborhood environment, there is no clear integration of these results. this paper presents a scoping study protocol that aims to...

Building on earlier Public Participation Geographic Information System research, a GIS-enabled Online Discussion Forum prototype named GeoDF is now being implemented and evaluated. This paper aims at empirically evaluating the usability of the GeoDF prototype to determine: (1) whether or not this new technology will indeed lead to "better" participation; and (2) how non-expert users use and acc...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great significance for post-earthquake damage assessment. Smartphone-based techniques provide the possibility to perform crowdsensing all buildings in urban regions after an earthquake. However, this idea still faces many difficulties and hard realize. Fortunately, development game engines provides opportunity simulating kind experiment. The main objecti...