Data quality of Global Map and some possibilities/limitations for its wide utilisation for global issues

Idrizi, Bashkim; Meha, Murat; Nikolli, Pal; Kabashi, Ismail

doi:10.1179/1752270611y.0000000015

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“…Throughout the empirical literature, digital mapping methods have been used extensively in the physical sciences, particularly for gauging current human-environmental phenomena and for future projections. Such examples include the investigation of global environmental issues (Idrizi, Meha, Nikolli, & Kabashi, 2012), calculations on the global costs of fishing (Lam, Sumalia, Dyck, Pauly, & Watson, 2011; Stewart et al, 2010) and other food security issues (Matsumura et al, 2009), the preservation of global forests (Potapov et al, 2008; Wulder, White, Magnussen, & McDonald, 2007), as well as the effects of climate change and water availability (McDonald et al, 2011). These and other studies that mapped ecological sustainability via a process of global mapping (Sutton, Anderson, Tuttle, & Morse, 2012) are of great interest to our work as they each, in their own distinctive way, set out to develop new methods for measuring anthropogenic environmental impact.…”

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Mapping Sustainability Initiatives Across a Region: An Innovative Survey Approach

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2012

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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The project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of research about place and sustainability education for the Anthropocene, the new geological age of human-induced planetary changes (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen, & Crutzen, 2010). The study investigated the location, nature and type of sustainability initiatives in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The purpose of the study was to trial the development of a place-based survey questionnaire to map initiatives in education for sustainability across a region in order to understand how they emerge in local places. The data from the survey was interpreted using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. This article focuses on the qualitative thematic analysis across all survey responses and assesses the findings in order to determine the usefulness of the approach. The study found that a regional place-based approach enables a different conceptualisation of the possibilities of a cross-sectoral interconnected system of sustainability education. The nonformal and informal sectors are important sites of innovation and have great potential to enrich the pedagogies of education for sustainability in the formal sector.

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