Mapping place values: 10 lessons from two decades of public participation GIS empirical research

Brown, Greg; Reed, Patrick C.; Raymond, Christopher M.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102156

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“…The central tenet of this method is that it allows participants to directly identify the locations of places across a landscape they value that can then be digitized into a GIS database for spatial analysis [55]. The values that participants identify on maps include items such as aesthetic, economic, recreation, biological, life-sustaining, spiritual, historic, and cultural, among others [51,56]. The methods of implementation have varied in PPGIS studies using qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies [56].…”

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“…The values that participants identify on maps include items such as aesthetic, economic, recreation, biological, life-sustaining, spiritual, historic, and cultural, among others [51,56]. The methods of implementation have varied in PPGIS studies using qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies [56]. Qualitative methods using focus groups, stakeholder interviews, or workshops allow participants to identify and define landscape values that are important to them and collect spatial data drawn on study area maps in the form of polygons [57].…”

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“…PPGIS studies have focused on a wide variety of natural resource management topics important for CVMAs including ecosystem services [59][60][61], coastal zoning [62][63][64][65], marine area planning [66][67][68], climate change and vulnerability [33,69], wildlife conservation [70,71], parks, tourism, and outdoor recreation [72][73][74], and development preferences [72,75]. There have been a number of studies assessing various qualitative and quantitative methodologies and identification of best practices [56,[75][76][77]. The focus of much of this research has applied spatial analysis of landscape values [48,51].…”

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“…The focus of much of this research has applied spatial analysis of landscape values [48,51]. Furthermore, many of the landscape values identified in this literature track closely with cultural values from the ecosystem services literature [56,78]. Brown and Fagerholm (2015) reviewed a full body of literature that has emerged with a focus on ecosystem services more broadly and cultural services in particular [79].…”

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“…Brown and Fagerholm (2015) reviewed a full body of literature that has emerged with a focus on ecosystem services more broadly and cultural services in particular [79]. This body of literature provides the methodologies and background for the creation and integration of stakeholder spatial knowledge of landscape values and ecosystem services into a format conducive to climate vulnerability mapping (CVMAs) and resilience planning with local experts and policy officials [52,56].…”

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The U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast has a long history of intense and varied development, from energy infrastructure and seaports to vacation homes and tourism. Coastal populations and development are growing. Concurrently, global climate change will influence sea level rise, resulting in increased flooding, storm surge, and coastal erosion. Regional planners must prepare for sea level rise and develop adaptive solutions to maximize resiliency. Comprehensive coastal vulnerability mapping assessments (CVMA) can integrate social, economic, and physical vulnerability with spatial analysis of natural hazards for local place-based investigations. Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) are a potentially important tool for the spatial collection of stakeholder knowledge for CVMA. The objective of this study was to assess the locations of a range of landscape values, ecosystem services, and development preferences held and identified by the general public using PPGIS to determine if those valued locations are vulnerable to sea level rise. We found that PPGIS can be used to map a wide variety of landscape values and that they can be used to assess vulnerability to sea level rise. We conclude with a discussion on how to integrate PPGIS into participatory CVMA for sea level rise planning.

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The Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) was used as a study region to examine how the spatial distribution of social values (SVs) people hold for their landscapes overlaps with ecoregions of the UMRB and how the results can be interpreted to inform regional-scale strategic landscape management for optimizing the production of ecosystem services. The methods include a survey of residents about their landscape SVs across the UMRB and a multistage spatial analysis of eleven georeferenced SVs linked to ecosystem services and human activities in the region. The results show agriculture, recreation, and conservation are, respectively, the most significant activities that people value in landscapes of the UMRB. An overlapping area was identified between hotspots of recreation, tourism, and cultural activities on the one hand and conservation on the other hand. A large overlap was found between landscapes of social importance (i.e., landscapes where residents value the land) and ecoregion junctions (i.e., the meeting points of ecoregions). More than one-fourth of the mapped points were no more than 5 km from the meeting points of ecoregions, meaning ecoregion junctions are highly attractive to residents, and therefore, subject to a variety of human activities. It was also shown that although distance to the place of residence may influence the spatial distribution of mapped points, proximity to ecoregion junctions is a stronger factor for predicting the locations people value on landscapes. These findings have important implications for food and energy production, cultural ecosystem services, and biodiversity across landscapes of the UMRB.

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Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental decision‐making more inclusive of diverse human concerns and aspirations. When valuation is undertaken in real‐world decision‐making settings, choices must be made about how to adapt valuation into context. Generic guidance illuminates choices of theory and method, as well as practical issues such as cost and complexity; however, little guidance exists on how to understand and respond to the political implications of valuation in places. To address this, we develop four propositions on how valuation intervenes into conflicted environmental decision‐making contexts, drawing on interviews with government officials and marine values‐holders from Aotearoa New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds. Valuation intervenes in politics by (i) vesting certain scales and actors with authority, (ii) aligning with or contesting existing regulatory categories, (iii) reallocating expertise about the environment and (iv) reproducing or reworking the uneven playing field of decision‐making. Understanding these implications can support valuation practitioners to situate their work within locally relevant contexts and objectives. These propositions provide a way of grasping the mechanisms through which valuation intervenes in local political struggles for environmental authority. Using these prompts, and developing others, can help valuation practitioners to ‘do good’ through seeking place‐based environmental justice and sustainability. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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Mapping place values: 10 lessons from two decades of public participation GIS empirical research

Cited by 153 publications

References 93 publications

Using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) to Identify Valued Landscapes Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) to Identify Valued Landscapes Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Spatial analysis of landscape social values in multifunctional landscapes of the Upper Missouri River Basin

Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics

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