Enhancing participation: Experiences of participatory geographic information systems in Shanxi province, China

Xiaojun Wang; Zhenrong Yu; Steve Cinderby; John Forrester

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2007.07.007

Enhancing participation: Experiences of participatory geographic information systems in Shanxi province, China

Xiaojun Wang, Zhenrong Yu, Steve Cinderby, John Forrester

Stockholm Environment Institute at York

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The concept of participation is not intrinsic to the nature of Chinese planning systems; institutionally, they are centralized and top-down and lack local effective participation and communication between all actors. In recent years, participatory geographic information systems (PGIS) approaches have been used in natural resource planning and management. The paper discusses a concrete adoption of the methodology of PGIS into Participatory land use planning (PLUP) in the rural Shanxi province of China. A PGIS operational framework for PLUP is generalized from the project practice. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-109
Number of pages	14
Journal	Applied Geography
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2007.07.007
Publication status	Published - Apr 2008

Keywords

participatory geographic information systems (PGIS)
participatory land use planning (PLUP)
participation
communication
rural China
RURAL APPRAISAL PRA
PUBLIC-PARTICIPATION
GIS
MANAGEMENT
KNOWLEDGE

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