Journal Article

Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Review and Framework

Sieber, Renee

2006

Overview

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) pertains to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to broaden public involvement in policymaking as well as to the value of GIS to promote the goals of nongovernmental organizations, grassroots groups, and community-based organizations. The article first traces the social history of PPGIS. It then argues that PPGIS has been socially constructed by a broad set of actors in research across disciplines and in practice across sectors. This produced and reproduced concept is then explicated through four major themes found across the breadth of the PPGIS literature: place and people, technology and data, process, and outcome and evaluation. The themes constitute a framework for evaluating current PPGIS activities and a roadmap for future PPGIS research and practice.

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group,Blackwell Publishers,Blackwell Publishing Inc,Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subject: Cartography / Citizen participation / Communities / Community organization / Community organizations / community-based organizations / Ecology / Geographic information systems / Geographical information systems / Geography / Grass roots movement / grassroots groups / Information storage and retrieval systems / Information systems / Information technology / Landscape / Literature reviews / Mapping / Methods, Models, and GIS / NGOs / Nongovernmental organizations / Nonprofit organizations / Personal empowerment / Policy making / PPGIS / Public involvement / Public participation / Remote sensing / Social construction / Social history / Spatial data / U.S.A