Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories: A governance analysis

Wehn, Uta; Rusca, Maria; Evers, Jaap; Lanfranchi, Vitaveska

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2014.12.017

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“…Wehn et al (2015) comments that in some cases local government authorities appear to prioritize selected groups of citizens regarded as more knowledgeable for CS projects. They illustrate this example from the UK where members of Civil Defence groups or those having specific professional skills are selected.…”

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Howmuch Do We Knowabout the Contributors to Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science Projects?

Mooney

Morgan

2015

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:In the last number of years there has been increased interest from researchers in investigating and understanding the characteristics and backgrounds of citizens who contribute to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Citizen Science (CS) projects. Much of the reluctance from stakeholders such as National Mapping Agencies, Environmental Ministries, etc. to use data and information generated and collected by VGI and CS projects grows from the lack of knowledge and understanding about who these contributors are. As they are drawn from the crowd there is a sense of the unknown about these citizens. Subsequently there are justifiable concerns about these citizens' ability to collect, generate and manage high quality and accurate spatial, scientific and environmental data and information. This paper provides a meta review of some of the key literature in the domain of VGI and CS to assess if these concerns are well founded and what efforts are ongoing to improve our understanding of the crowd.

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“…They illustrate this example from the UK where members of Civil Defence groups or those having specific professional skills are selected. This leads to the formation of networks of "qualified observers selected for participation in flood monitoring progammes" (Wehn et al, 2015)(p.232)…”

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Howmuch Do We Knowabout the Contributors to Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science Projects?

Mooney

Morgan

2015

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…This is because in the Directive No.20, was not clearly established the type of placement will be given to the victims and this has led to the restoration project need to be discussed by the higher authorities and its requires a long time due. Moreover, previous researchers also assumed that community involvement in the planning and formulation of policies is necessary for a person to realize their human potential and would make the implementation of a more comprehensive assistance (Wehn, Rusca, Evers, & Lanfranchi, 2014;Kweit, & Kweit, 2007;Godschalk, Brody, & Burby, 2003). Therefore, the bottom-up theory used by previous researchers to identify the effectiveness of aid during and after the stage from the perspective of the victims themselves.…”

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Flood Disaster Management in Malaysia: A Review of Issues of Flood Disaster Relief during and Post-Disaster

Khalid¹,

Shafiai²

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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This paper describes the issues and problem of disaster relief provided by the government to the victims in Malaysia, during and post-disaster caused by flooding. Presently, the delivery relief system in flood management was predominantly an official strategy based on Directive No. 20 by National Security Council (MKN). These instructions outline a policy on disaster management and has set the role and responsibilities of the agencies involved and also covers the action of monitoring the activities in disaster management. Therefore, the focus of this study is on flooding that occurred in Malaysia. This paper presents findings from a literature review on previous research in this topic. The result show that, in Malaysia, a study concerning the evaluation of the effectiveness of policy implementation at levels during and post-disaster that affect the flood victims were poorly implemented. Further to that, this paper will attempt to describe the issues of disaster relief system that has been criticized.

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“…Either all citizens may be allowed to contribute, or there may be a selection of contributors based on reputation, experience or credentials, such as membership of a citizen group or organisation (Wehn et al, 2015). In projects such as the Degree Confluence Project (http://confluence.org/) or Wikimapia (http://wikimapia.org) all citizens can contribute.…”

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ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:This paper presents a framework for considering quality control of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Different issues need to be considered during the conception, acquisition and post-acquisition phases of VGI creation. This includes items such as collecting metadata on the volunteer, providing suitable training, giving corrective feedback during the mapping process and use of control data, among others. Two examples of VGI data collection are then considered with respect to this quality control framework, i.e. VGI data collection by National Mapping Agencies and by the most recent Geo-Wiki tool, a game called Cropland Capture. Although good practices are beginning to emerge, there is still the need for the development and sharing of best practice, especially if VGI is to be integrated with authoritative map products or used for calibration and/or validation of land cover in the future.

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Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories: A governance analysis

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Howmuch Do We Knowabout the Contributors to Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science Projects?

Howmuch Do We Knowabout the Contributors to Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science Projects?

Flood Disaster Management in Malaysia: A Review of Issues of Flood Disaster Relief during and Post-Disaster

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