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Public Participation in 2021: New Forms, New Modes, New Questions?
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Public Participation in 2021: New Forms, New Modes, New Questions?

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 17672

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ryan Burns

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Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, ES 356, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: digital geographies; critical GIScience; political economy; critical social theory; digital humanitarianism; geocomputation
Dr. Johannes Flacke

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Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: collaborative urban planning; stakeholder participation; interactive planning and decision support systems; PSS co-design; usability and impact studies
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Prof. Dr. Rina Ghose

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Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Interests: IoT; critical GIS; PPGIS; environmental and social justice; citizen participation; smart city
Prof. Dr. Francis Harvey

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Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Schongauer Str. 9, D-04328 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: GIS; geo-visualization; historical geography; semantics; GIScience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Description

Public participation is attracting new interest and concerns, especially in the context of smart city discussions around the world and associated information technology developments, through considerations of professional and academic work. Increased interactivity with web-based GI-Toolsets, new and richer datasets from sensors and mobile devices, the wide availability of LiDAR data, and increased capacities of SDI-based infrastructures allow us to reimagine what public participation can be and what it can achieve. The smart city vision opens up new vistas for thinking about how and what citizens and governments can realize through public participation. It also leads to critical reflections on past experiences regarding what is possible through public participation and how to improve current research. We are particularly interested in contributions engaging with projects and issues in the Global South for this Special Issue, with additional support for those contributions (see below).

Topics include:

- Planning support system developments and practices;

- Interactive public participation systems (kiosks, web sites, etc.);

- Collaborative approaches to participation;

- Citizen engagement strategies;

- Participatory design;

- Participation and urban dynamics;

- Citizen science and participation;

- Mobile society and challenges of public participation in a globalizing world;

- Cooperative maps and atlases;

- Resistance with and through participation;

- Emotional dimensions of participation;

- Microgeographies as community strategies and politics;

- Counter-mapping and its participation politics;

- Indigenous mapping and participation strategies;

- Conceptual issues of public participation for the 21st century.

Contribution Formats

Following the IJGI guidelines and its open-access principles (https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/ijgi/instructions and https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/ijgi/apc), the Special Issue includes academic papers that go through the journal’s standard review process. We also aim to support the presentation of work from the Global South, which can include topical collections through reviews of submitted abstracts. Authors can submit at any time, but a special abstract review allows us to give potential contributors advanced feedback and helps to evaluate possibilities and make recommendations to assist with the journal’s article processing charge (APC). Please indicate your desired article format and need for assistance with the APC when you upload your abstract to ((website using simple form following GDPR)).

Since 2012, IJGI has published several hundred articles yearly on a broad range of topics related to geoinformation. For reference, the last published Impact Factor is 2.899 and the 5-year Impact Factor is 2.971 (please see https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/ijgi for current information). The average time from submission to publication is 59 days. The overall rejection rate is currently 66%.

Copyright remains with the authors of published articles. All accepted publications appear as Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Contribution Publication

IJGI has a standard article processing charge of CHF 1400, reduced to CHF 700 for this Special Issue for Public Participation in 2021. There is an additional possibility of extending waivers to some authors working on projects or issues in the global South. To equitably distribute the waivers, we ask you to indicate interest in obtaining a waiver and possible resources you may have to help cover some of these costs when you submit an abstract.

Timeline

Draft submission: at any time, suggested by 20 October 2021, to the IJGI submission system

Revised manuscript submission: ongoing after acceptance or rejection notifications

Online publication: (all articles appear shortly after acceptance and are added to the Special Issue, which will appear in its entirety in early summer 2022.

Dr. Ryan Burns
Dr. Johannes Flacke
Prof. Dr. Rina Ghose
Prof. Dr. Francis Harvey
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Integrating Visualization and Interaction Tools for Enhancing Collaboration in Different Public Participation Settings
by Patrick Postert, Anna E. M. Wolf and Jochen Schiewe
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(3), 156; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi11030156 - 22 Feb 2022
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The demand for participant engagement in urban planning shows a great need for tools that enable communication between stakeholders and make planning processes more transparent. So far, common methods use different tools and platforms independently. This prevents the full potential for effective, efficient, [...] Read more.
The demand for participant engagement in urban planning shows a great need for tools that enable communication between stakeholders and make planning processes more transparent. So far, common methods use different tools and platforms independently. This prevents the full potential for effective, efficient, and creative collaboration from being realized. Hence, this paper presents an approach that combines different participation settings (off-site, on-site, and online) by using an interactive touch table and an additional screen, as well as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices, and synchronizing them in real-time. To fulfill the collaboration requirements, three major technical aspects are addressed in the concept and prototype implementation: Firstly, the demands for various settings and devices require a uniform and cross-device interaction concept. Secondly, all changes in the course of the participation (e.g., adding, manipulating, or removing objects) must be synchronized across all devices in real-time, with very low latency. Thirdly, the various states should be saved persistently during the collaboration process. Detailed empirical usability studies are still pending; however, pretests indicate that the concept is appreciated, and the transferability to other planning processes is given. Full article
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Participatory GIS-Based Approach for the Demarcation of Village Boundaries and Their Utility: A Case Study of the Eastern Boundary of Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka
by Chamara J. Hettiarachchi, Prabath Priyankara, Takehiro Morimoto and Yuji Murayama
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(1), 17; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi11010017 - 30 Dec 2021
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This study examines spatial knowledge of the local community and the participatory resource mapping (PRM) approach to demarcate land boundaries in the eastern boundary of Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has four types of major administrative boundaries, namely, provinces, districts, divisional [...] Read more.
This study examines spatial knowledge of the local community and the participatory resource mapping (PRM) approach to demarcate land boundaries in the eastern boundary of Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has four types of major administrative boundaries, namely, provinces, districts, divisional secretariat divisions (DSD), and Grama Niladari (GN) divisions. The smallest community segments are clustered inside each GN division. The lack of proper demarcation of these smallest community segments, called ‘villages’, has been identified as a significant issue when implementing community development plans and applications in government and non-government projects. Thus, the deliverables of community-based projects become less effective. The objective of this study was to explore means of demarcating land boundaries, to separately identify small community segments using participatory GIS (PGIS) techniques. The study was conducted covering 12 GN divisions adjoining the eastern border of Wilpattu National Park (WNP). The methods used included PGIS interviews and group discussions with PRM steps. Overall, around 100 selected community members, spread across 12 GN divisions, were chosen to participate in the study. Community society meetings were conducted in each village, and essential topographic information in the area was collected with the knowledge of local society members and GIS tools. Later, this was digitized and verified to improve the presentation and accuracy of the results. As a result, the study could identify villages in each GN division, while generating more precise digital maps. Through this study, it can be confirmed that PGIS has remarkable potential in land use planning applications. The study further shows the potential of the application of PGIS in community-based projects and their deliverables to the community, and in enhancing community education on spatial thinking and planning, while facilitating community empowerment and innovation. Full article
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Interactive Maps for the Production of Knowledge and the Promotion of Participation from the Perspective of Communication, Journalism, and Digital Humanities
by Pedro Molina Rodríguez-Navas, Johamna Muñoz Lalinde and Narcisa Medranda Morales
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(11), 722; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10110722 - 26 Oct 2021
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New technologies have allowed traditional map production criteria to be modified or even subverted. Starting from the communication sciences—journalism in particular—and digital humanities via the history of communication, we show how to use interactive digital maps for the production and publication of knowledge [...] Read more.
New technologies have allowed traditional map production criteria to be modified or even subverted. Starting from the communication sciences—journalism in particular—and digital humanities via the history of communication, we show how to use interactive digital maps for the production and publication of knowledge through and/or for participation. Firstly, we establish the theoretical-conceptual framework necessary to base the practices, dividing the elements into three areas: interactive maps and knowledge production (decentralization, pluralization, reticularization, and humanization), maps as instruments to promote political and social participation (egalitarianism, horizontality, and criticism), and maps as instruments for the visualization of data that favors the user experience (interactivity, multimediality, reticularity of reading, and participation). Next, we present two cases that we developed to put into practice the theoretical concepts that we established: the Mapa Infoparticipa (Infoparticipa Map), which shows the results of the evaluation of the transparency of public administrations, and the Ciutadania Plural (Plural Citizenship) web platform for the production of social knowledge about the past and the present. This theoretical and practical model shows the possibilities of interactive maps as tools to promote political participation and as instruments for the construction of social knowledge in a collaborative, participatory, networked way. Full article
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Transparency for Participation through the Communication Approach
by Pedro Molina Rodríguez-Navas, Narcisa Medranda Morales and Johamna Muñoz Lalinde
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(9), 586; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10090586 - 01 Sep 2021
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Transparency is a communicative process whose aim is to provide citizens with information that will promote their participation in public affairs. However, its application is often reduced to a legally stipulated administrative act. In contrast, this article sets out the principles, attributes and [...] Read more.
Transparency is a communicative process whose aim is to provide citizens with information that will promote their participation in public affairs. However, its application is often reduced to a legally stipulated administrative act. In contrast, this article sets out the principles, attributes and evidence of transparency from a communication perspective, taking into consideration that transparency is treated as a process through which recipients obtain, understand and use information. This study focuses on the transparency of local town councils, although most of the concepts could be applied at other levels of public administration. To establish this framework, the legislation and application of transparency in three countries (Spain, Ecuador and Colombia) was studied using the Infoparticipa method designed with a communication approach in mind. A comparative study was then carried out using methods designed in other disciplines. Through this approach, the benefits of transparency were categorized to define six principles—disclosure, strengthening, visibility, comprehensibility, dissemination and humanism—and eight attributes of transparent information: veracity, timeliness, accessibility, usability, intelligibility, universality, pluralism and plurality. For each attribute, the evidence of its application was determined. This framework clarifies the perspective of transparency for participation from a communication approach. Full article
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The Role of Participatory Village Maps in Strengthening Public Participation Practice
by Aulia Akbar, Johannes Flacke, Javier Martinez and Martin F. A. M. van Maarseveen
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(8), 512; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10080512 - 29 Jul 2021
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This study investigated the role of participatory village maps in strengthening the Musrenbang, an annual multi-stakeholder public consultation forum to discuss development issues and plans in Indonesia. We evaluated the Musrenbang in five villages in Deli Serdang District after conducting participatory mapping workshops [...] Read more.
This study investigated the role of participatory village maps in strengthening the Musrenbang, an annual multi-stakeholder public consultation forum to discuss development issues and plans in Indonesia. We evaluated the Musrenbang in five villages in Deli Serdang District after conducting participatory mapping workshops to produce village maps to inform the Musrenbang process. Our results show that communication between Musrenbang participants improved because the maps provided a clear definition of the village administrative area, geospatial data as resources for participation, transparency, and a dynamic deliberative process. Collaboration was also evident as the maps enabled participants to exchange knowledge, experience social learning, and have greater influence on the decision-making process. Despite the benefits, some issues impeded the optimal use of the village maps to support the participatory process in the Musrenbang. The maps could not completely overcome the power disparities between Musrenbang participants. Certain actors still dominated the implementation of the Musrenbang, making the deliberative process inaccessible to and less inclusive of some local stakeholders. Several improvements are urgently needed to optimise the use of participatory village maps and enhance Musrenbang implementation. Full article
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