The concept of “place” links people to their environment and is foundational to disciplines
such as geography, environmental psychology, and urban studies. With growth in …

Public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods have progressed over the last decade, but as a
rapidly evolving practice and area of research, there are new challenges. To identify the key …

We review public participation GIS (PPGIS) and participatory GIS (PGIS) approaches for
ecosystem services to identify current and best practice. PPGIS/PGIS are spatially explicit …

Global interest in participatory mapping described as public participation GIS (PPGIS),
participatory GIS (PGIS), and volunteered geographic information (VGI) continues to grow …

The contribution of single landscape features for supply of cultural ecosystem services
(CES) is well researched. However, only few studies do exist that identified the role of both …

Sociospatial information is critical to marine and coastal ecosystem management. The
Hawaii Coastal Uses Mapping Project used a participatory geographic information systems …

Crowdsourced data can provide spatially explicit data on the contribution of nature to
people. Spatial information is essential for effectively managing the diverse relationships …

A significant barrier to the use of public participation GIS (PPGIS) and crowd-sourcing for
conservation planning is uncertainty about the quality of the spatial data generated. This …

This study outlines the conceptualisation and development of a public participation
geographic information system (ppGIS) and web GIS (webGIS) platform for hosting …

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), though proven valuable in
ecosystem services (ES) research, is occasionally criticized for being expensive in terms of …